The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 頁 |
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... with great faults ; it may be dry , stiff , feeble , affected . The style of an author is always intimately connected with his manner of thinking : it is a picture of the ideas which arise in his 19 PURITY OF STYLE . 5 3 ...
... with great faults ; it may be dry , stiff , feeble , affected . The style of an author is always intimately connected with his manner of thinking : it is a picture of the ideas which arise in his 19 PURITY OF STYLE . 5 3 ...
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... ideas which arise in his mind , and of the manner in which they do arise . Hence the diffi- culty of drawing an exact line of separation between the style and the sentiment . All that can be required of language is to convey our ideas ...
... ideas which arise in his mind , and of the manner in which they do arise . Hence the diffi- culty of drawing an exact line of separation between the style and the sentiment . All that can be required of language is to convey our ideas ...
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... ideas which we em- ploy them to express . It implies the correct and happy application of them , according to that usage , in opposition to vulgarisms , or low expressions ; and to words and phrases that would be less significant of the ...
... ideas which we em- ploy them to express . It implies the correct and happy application of them , according to that usage , in opposition to vulgarisms , or low expressions ; and to words and phrases that would be less significant of the ...
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... idea of true honour . - Fielding's Dialogues between Alexander and Diogenes . Base ungrateful boy ! miserable as I am , yet I cannot cease to love thee . My love even now speaks in my resentment . I am still your father , nor can your ...
... idea of true honour . - Fielding's Dialogues between Alexander and Diogenes . Base ungrateful boy ! miserable as I am , yet I cannot cease to love thee . My love even now speaks in my resentment . I am still your father , nor can your ...
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... Idea of a Patriot King . He is God in his friendship , as well as his nature , and therefore we sinful creatures are not took upon advantages , nor consumed in our provocations . - South's Sermons . Which some philosophers , not ...
... Idea of a Patriot King . He is God in his friendship , as well as his nature , and therefore we sinful creatures are not took upon advantages , nor consumed in our provocations . - South's Sermons . Which some philosophers , not ...
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第 127 頁 - 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.
第 141 頁 - 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.
第 294 頁 - ... 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.
第 138 頁 - 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.
第 262 頁 - 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.
第 298 頁 - ... 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...
第 165 頁 - 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?
第 141 頁 - 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.
第 163 頁 - 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.
第 316 頁 - 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.