The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 Seiten |
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... attention , a spirit of general improvement must have begun to pervade the state . Accordingly , we find that vigour and originality of thought have always preceded beauty and accuracy of expression . In the first efforts of untutored ...
... attention , a spirit of general improvement must have begun to pervade the state . Accordingly , we find that vigour and originality of thought have always preceded beauty and accuracy of expression . In the first efforts of untutored ...
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... 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 number of the politest accomplishments . Julius ...
... 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 number of the politest accomplishments . Julius ...
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... attention to single words and phrases , and afterwards to the construction of sentences . Perspicuity , considered with respect to words and phrases , phrases , require the qualities of purity , propriety , 6 PURITY OF STYLE .
... attention to single words and phrases , and afterwards to the construction of sentences . Perspicuity , considered with respect to words and phrases , phrases , require the qualities of purity , propriety , 6 PURITY OF STYLE .
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... attention . But we commonly take for granted , that we possess a competent know- ** " Another will say , it wanteth grammar . Nay , truly , it hath that praise , that it wants not grammar ; for grammar it might have , but it needs it ...
... attention . But we commonly take for granted , that we possess a competent know- ** " Another will say , it wanteth grammar . Nay , truly , it hath that praise , that it wants not grammar ; for grammar it might have , but it needs it ...
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... attention to minute formalities , is a certain indi- cation of a little mind , conscious to ( of ) the want of innate dignity . -Hawkesworth's Almoran and Humet . He found the greatest difficulty of ( in ) writing . - Hume's History of ...
... attention to minute formalities , is a certain indi- cation of a little mind , conscious to ( of ) the want of innate dignity . -Hawkesworth's Almoran and Humet . He found the greatest difficulty of ( in ) writing . - Hume's History of ...
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Addison adverb agreeable allegory ancient appear Aristotle arrangement attention beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse CHAP character Cicero circumstance composition critical degree Demosthenes discourse Dissertation Dryden effect elegance elevation eloquence employed endeavour English English language epistolary Essay expression fancy figurative language figure frequently genius grace Greek harmony harsh hath History Homer honour humour idea imagination imitation instance introduced kind labour language learning letters Lord Shaftesbury manner meaning ment metaphor mind nature never object observations occasion orator ornament passage passion perhaps period person personification perspicuity phrases Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry possessed precision produce proper propriety prose qualities Quintilian racter reader remarkable resemblance Roman Empire seems sense sentence sentiment Sermons shew simile simplicity Sir William Temple sound speak species Spectator strength style taste thing thou thought tion tragedy verb verse Virgil virtue vulgar words writer Xenophon
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.