The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 sivua |
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... seem to have been sufficiently aware . In treating of the general character of a writer's style , they content themselves with referring to the body of his works , in confirmation of their sentence . To such exemplifications as occur in ...
... seem to have been sufficiently aware . In treating of the general character of a writer's style , they content themselves with referring to the body of his works , in confirmation of their sentence . To such exemplifications as occur in ...
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... seem often to have been considered beneath the attention both of an author and a reader . The ancients , however , regarded this sub- ject in a different point of view : to be skilled in their native tongue , was esteemed among the ...
... seem often to have been considered beneath the attention both of an author and a reader . The ancients , however , regarded this sub- ject in a different point of view : to be skilled in their native tongue , was esteemed among the ...
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... seem condemned to the curse of creeping upon the ground all the days of their life . But there is another extreme , which ought also to be carefully avoided . Language may be too pompons , as well Las too mean . Some authors mistake ...
... seem condemned to the curse of creeping upon the ground all the days of their life . But there is another extreme , which ought also to be carefully avoided . Language may be too pompons , as well Las too mean . Some authors mistake ...
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... seems to portend no good to the English language ; and it is grievous to think with what volupty two or Poetararorencouroac * eminent personages have opiniatred the inchoation of such futile barbarisms . " In short , the liberty of ...
... seems to portend no good to the English language ; and it is grievous to think with what volupty two or Poetararorencouroac * eminent personages have opiniatred the inchoation of such futile barbarisms . " In short , the liberty of ...
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... seems to have grown ashamed of making them any longer . - Johnson's Life of Dryden . From that time he resolved to make no more translations . — Johnson's Life of Pupe . It is my design to comprise in this short paper , the substance of ...
... seems to have grown ashamed of making them any longer . - Johnson's Life of Dryden . From that time he resolved to make no more translations . — Johnson's Life of Pupe . It is my design to comprise in this short paper , the substance 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.