A Modern Composition and Rhetoric (complete Course) Containing the Principles of Correct, Artistic and Effective English for SchoolsB.H. Sanborn & Company, 1901 - 406 pages |
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... wish to paint pictures . We might of ourselves by long practice produce fair results ; but more proba- bly we should go to some successful painter for instruc- tion . We should expect him to tell us something of the principles he has ...
... wish to paint pictures . We might of ourselves by long practice produce fair results ; but more proba- bly we should go to some successful painter for instruc- tion . We should expect him to tell us something of the principles he has ...
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... wish to gain information beyond what we have we must appeal to books . This material taken at second - hand is not so vitally our possession as is that which has been a part of the life we have lived . We should first , then , cultivate ...
... wish to gain information beyond what we have we must appeal to books . This material taken at second - hand is not so vitally our possession as is that which has been a part of the life we have lived . We should first , then , cultivate ...
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Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas. hold upon what we know and wish to know less sure and trustworthy . Writing may be concerned only with a sort of reporting of the things we know , but ordinarily it attempts more than this ...
Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas. hold upon what we know and wish to know less sure and trustworthy . Writing may be concerned only with a sort of reporting of the things we know , but ordinarily it attempts more than this ...
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... wish to say , - subject , point of view , length of treatment , etc. , and govern ourselves accordingly . The title should have a very definite relation to what it introduces ; it should appeal to the curiosity of the reader , but ...
... wish to say , - subject , point of view , length of treatment , etc. , and govern ourselves accordingly . The title should have a very definite relation to what it introduces ; it should appeal to the curiosity of the reader , but ...
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... wishes to say . Of course not everything that comes under our observation is available , and not everything available shows its true character at a glance ; we may have to look a long time to see anything that has not already been seen ...
... wishes to say . Of course not everything that comes under our observation is available , and not everything available shows its true character at a glance ; we may have to look a long time to see anything that has not already been seen ...
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Page 337 - FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 4 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 242 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life — not one who had lived and suffered death.
Page 261 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient...
Page 385 - The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you ; No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en : In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Page 2 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance ; As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 310 - Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the region of Art those old women scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pothouse, those rounded backs and stupid weatherbeaten faces that have bent over the spade and done...
Page 363 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a. number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Page 273 - The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
Page 240 - Divinely thro' all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best...