The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 Seiten |
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... Sentiments . Better thus : " Though our brother is upon the rack , our senses will never , as long as we ourselves are at ease , inform us of what he suffers . This work in its full extent , being now afflicted with an asthma , and ...
... Sentiments . Better thus : " Though our brother is upon the rack , our senses will never , as long as we ourselves are at ease , inform us of what he suffers . This work in its full extent , being now afflicted with an asthma , and ...
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... sentiments to his mind , you give him little or no information , and consequently a ord neither e ercise to his reason , nor entertainment to his fancy . In what we read , and what we hear , we always expect to find something with which ...
... sentiments to his mind , you give him little or no information , and consequently a ord neither e ercise to his reason , nor entertainment to his fancy . In what we read , and what we hear , we always expect to find something with which ...
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... sentiment , they have a quite opposite tendency . In compositions of this kind , no apology need be offered for such expres- sions as Fielding has here employed . The subsequent quotations will farther illustrate the disagreeable effect ...
... sentiment , they have a quite opposite tendency . In compositions of this kind , no apology need be offered for such expres- sions as Fielding has here employed . The subsequent quotations will farther illustrate the disagreeable effect ...
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... Sentiments . VI . In the members of a sentence where two objects . are either compared or contrasted , some resemblance in the language and construction should be preserved . To illustrate this rule , I shall produce various instances ...
... Sentiments . VI . In the members of a sentence where two objects . are either compared or contrasted , some resemblance in the language and construction should be preserved . To illustrate this rule , I shall produce various instances ...
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... sentiments , should want the art of displaying them to their full advantage ; that the sublime in morals should not be attended with a suitable elevation of language . His words are commonly ill - chosen , and always ill- place ; his ...
... sentiments , should want the art of displaying them to their full advantage ; that the sublime in morals should not be attended with a suitable elevation of language . His words are commonly ill - chosen , and always ill- place ; his ...
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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.