A Practical Course in English CompositionGinn, 1893 - Всего страниц: 249 |
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Стр. 148 - found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district! A
Стр. 183 - of compounds, or labeller of species ; but him who through lower truths seeks higher, and eventually the highest)—only the genuine man of science, we say, can truly know how utterly beyond, not only human knowledge, but human conception, is the Universal Power of which Nature, and Life, and Thought are manifestations.
Стр. 211 - always, you have two characters in which all greatness of art consists : — First, the earnest and intense seizing of natural facts; then the ordering those facts by strength of human intellect, so as to make them, for all who look upon them, to the utmost serviceable, memorable, and
Стр. 194 - showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death
Стр. 136 - avoided, We were forever to live without growing old and immortal." Chapman cannot be satisfied with this, but must add a fancy to it: — "if keeping back Would keep back age from us, and death, and that we might not wrack In this life's human sea at all "; and so on. Again
Стр. 175 - If anyone doubts the importance of an acquaintance with the fundamental principles of physiology as a means to complete living, let him look around and see how many men and women he can find in middle or later life who are thoroughly well.
Стр. 135 - carefully abstain from choosing passages for the express purpose of making Chapman appear ridiculous ; Chapman, like Pope, merits in himself all respect, though he too, like Pope, fails to render Homer. In that tonic speech of Sarpedon, of which I have said so much, Homer, you may remember, has : — "if indeed, but once this
Стр. 194 - murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death
Стр. 151 - Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius ; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be eminent in poetry.