English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell InstituteCharles Scribner's Sons, 1891 - 316 pages |
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... - sions unhappily not remarkable for politeness , the word skedaddle . Somehow it caught their fancy : " Skedaddo ! " they shouted in chorus When T the present time agree to attach definite significance ; and. 14 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... - sions unhappily not remarkable for politeness , the word skedaddle . Somehow it caught their fancy : " Skedaddo ! " they shouted in chorus When T the present time agree to attach definite significance ; and. 14 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... definite significance ; and what these words are we can discover only by such constant observation and care of what is going on about us in the whole English - speaking world as a child or a foreigner would give to a language he was ...
... definite significance ; and what these words are we can discover only by such constant observation and care of what is going on about us in the whole English - speaking world as a child or a foreigner would give to a language he was ...
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... definite vocabulary , he finds himself in possession only of a jumbled collection of ill - defined synonyms . I have said enough , I think , to show clearly what Barbarisms and Improprieties are . Under one head or the other must fall ...
... definite vocabulary , he finds himself in possession only of a jumbled collection of ill - defined synonyms . I have said enough , I think , to show clearly what Barbarisms and Improprieties are . Under one head or the other must fall ...
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... definite understanding of the ultimate relation of words and ideas than most of us habitually enjoy . I shall turn , then , to a consideration of this question , which I think we should carefully consider before dismissing this part of ...
... definite understanding of the ultimate relation of words and ideas than most of us habitually enjoy . I shall turn , then , to a consideration of this question , which I think we should carefully consider before dismissing this part of ...
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... definite conclusion about long sentences and short , however , we may conveniently fix in our minds another , and a far more exact , clas- sification of sentences , that which divides them into periodic and loose . Bain's definition of ...
... definite conclusion about long sentences and short , however , we may conveniently fix in our minds another , and a far more exact , clas- sification of sentences , that which divides them into periodic and loose . Bain's definition of ...
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Page 253 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 276 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 275 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least,...
Page 285 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
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Page 235 - That every man in want is knave or fool : " God cannot love" (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) " The wretch he starves" — and piously denies: But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care.
Page 59 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
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Page 53 - Then Apollyon, espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and, wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall, and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyon,
Page 53 - Apollyon, espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall ; and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyon, I am sure of thee now ; and with that he had almost pressed him to death, so that Christian began to despair of life.