A practical introduction to English composition on a new planStewart, 1873 |
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... style . - LOCKE . Le style n'est que l'ordre et le mouvement qu'on met dans ses pensées . Si on les enchaîne étroitement , si on les serre , le style devient ferme , nerveux , et concis ; si on les laisse se succéder lentement , et ne ...
... style . - LOCKE . Le style n'est que l'ordre et le mouvement qu'on met dans ses pensées . Si on les enchaîne étroitement , si on les serre , le style devient ferme , nerveux , et concis ; si on les laisse se succéder lentement , et ne ...
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... style should be to write as well as possible , and as to quickness , it will be acquired by habit . Materials for writing will offer themselves more readily every day ; words will flow in upon him , and composition become easy . Upon ...
... style should be to write as well as possible , and as to quickness , it will be acquired by habit . Materials for writing will offer themselves more readily every day ; words will flow in upon him , and composition become easy . Upon ...
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... style , he gets - if he gets anything — a shallow knack of stringing empty phrases together . Then he is also asked to write Essays ( they are sometimes called Themes ) on Adversity , Clemency , Contentment , Generosity , Hypocrisy , or ...
... style , he gets - if he gets anything — a shallow knack of stringing empty phrases together . Then he is also asked to write Essays ( they are sometimes called Themes ) on Adversity , Clemency , Contentment , Generosity , Hypocrisy , or ...
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... style . The multitude of rules acts like a torpedo , and his mind is paralysed . The only remedy for this is larger practice , with the matter supplied , and the form at least suggested . In this book , have been substituted- IMITATION ...
... style . The multitude of rules acts like a torpedo , and his mind is paralysed . The only remedy for this is larger practice , with the matter supplied , and the form at least suggested . In this book , have been substituted- IMITATION ...
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... style to a very high degree ; but very often at the expense of truth and fulness . Their object has been that their meaning should strike a reader at once , and save him all reflection . For this purpose , they are madly fond of epigram ...
... style to a very high degree ; but very often at the expense of truth and fulness . Their object has been that their meaning should strike a reader at once , and save him all reflection . For this purpose , they are madly fond of epigram ...
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Page 181 - Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say,' Peace I
Page 181 - THE stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies , I hear the rushing of the blast, That through the snowy valley flies Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild stormy month! in praise of thee ; Yet, though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to rne.
Page 14 - ... temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses...
Page 63 - The day broke. The Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house. A pit was instantly dug. The dead bodies, a hundred and...
Page 63 - Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.
Page 63 - But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Page 151 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That...
Page 180 - Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save. Now all is calm, and fresh, and still Alone the chirp of flitting bird, And talk of children on the hill, And bell of wandering kine are heard.
Page 181 - WE sat within the farmhouse old, Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance, night and day. Not far away we saw the port, — • The strange, old-fashioned, silent town,—. The lighthouse, — the dismantled fort, — The wooden houses, quaint and brown.
Page 63 - Then was committed that great crime, memorable for its singular atrocity, memorable for the tremendous retribution by which it was followed. The English captives were left to the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.