A Manual of English Prose Literature..Blackwood, 1881 - Всего страниц: 548 |
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... ment , and set forth with consummate literary skill in the clearest possible light . " -Aberdeen Daily Free Press . " This truly admirable work would require a far more extensive and minutely describing review than our space admits of ...
... ment , and set forth with consummate literary skill in the clearest possible light . " -Aberdeen Daily Free Press . " This truly admirable work would require a far more extensive and minutely describing review than our space admits of ...
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... ment , and set forth with consummate literary skill in the clearest possible light . " -Aberdeen Daily Free Press . " This truly admirable work would require a far more extensive and minutely describing review than our space admits of ...
... ment , and set forth with consummate literary skill in the clearest possible light . " -Aberdeen Daily Free Press . " This truly admirable work would require a far more extensive and minutely describing review than our space admits of ...
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... ment of Macaulay . Very few writers in our language seem to have paid much attention to the construction of paragraphs . Macaulay is perhaps the most exemplary . Bacon and Temple , from their legal and diplomatic education , are much ...
... ment of Macaulay . Very few writers in our language seem to have paid much attention to the construction of paragraphs . Macaulay is perhaps the most exemplary . Bacon and Temple , from their legal and diplomatic education , are much ...
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... ment , " as a separate division , and discuss ornaments under perspi- cuity and propriety . And Blair maintains that " all the qualities of a good style may be ranged under two heads , perspicuity and ornament . " Such vague fumbling is ...
... ment , " as a separate division , and discuss ornaments under perspi- cuity and propriety . And Blair maintains that " all the qualities of a good style may be ranged under two heads , perspicuity and ornament . " Such vague fumbling is ...
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... we should refuse to believe what he tells us of the profound gloom thrown over him by this bereave- ment " the night that for him gathered upon that event ran after his steps far into life . " " Well it -THOMAS DE QUINCEY LIFE, • LIFE,
... we should refuse to believe what he tells us of the profound gloom thrown over him by this bereave- ment " the night that for him gathered upon that event ran after his steps far into life . " " Well it -THOMAS DE QUINCEY LIFE, • LIFE,
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Стр. 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Стр. 365 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Стр. 102 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Стр. 358 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Стр. 306 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand...
Стр. 284 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and...
Стр. 364 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels, of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance ; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
Стр. 200 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Стр. 221 - ... rest himself ; if the Moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures...