The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 sivua |
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... particular examples than by general precepts . I have , therefore , endeavoured to collect abundance of apposite quotations , in order to illustrate every branch of the subject . In many instances this was an easy task ; but in the ...
... particular examples than by general precepts . I have , therefore , endeavoured to collect abundance of apposite quotations , in order to illustrate every branch of the subject . In many instances this was an easy task ; but in the ...
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... particular observation that both houses were full of zeal for the present go- vernment , and of resentment against the late usurpations ) there was but one party in parliament ; and no other party could raise its head in the nation ...
... particular observation that both houses were full of zeal for the present go- vernment , and of resentment against the late usurpations ) there was but one party in parliament ; and no other party could raise its head in the nation ...
Sivu 71
... particular attention should be paid to the use of copulatives , relatives , and all the particles employed in transaction and connexion . The gracefulness and strength of a period must in a great measure depend on words of this ...
... particular attention should be paid to the use of copulatives , relatives , and all the particles employed in transaction and connexion . The gracefulness and strength of a period must in a great measure depend on words of this ...
Sivu 72
... particular attention , this sort of style is very proper . But in the ordinary current of discourse , it is better to express ourselves more simply and briefly , " Nothing disgusts us sooner than the empty pomp of language . " On the ...
... particular attention , this sort of style is very proper . But in the ordinary current of discourse , it is better to express ourselves more simply and briefly , " Nothing disgusts us sooner than the empty pomp of language . " On the ...
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... particular treatise , which is already prepared by me , on that subject . - Middleton's Free Inquiry , V. Sentences ought never to be concluded with words which make an inconsiderable figure . Such conclusions always have the effect of ...
... particular treatise , which is already prepared by me , on that subject . - Middleton's Free Inquiry , V. Sentences ought never to be concluded with words which make an inconsiderable figure . Such conclusions always have the effect of ...
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Sivu 127 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Sivu 141 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Sivu 294 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Sivu 138 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Sivu 262 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Sivu 298 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Sivu 165 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Sivu 141 - Death? perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Sivu 163 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Sivu 316 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their Letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.