The Journal of English Studies, Volume 1H. Marshall & Son., 1912 |
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... examination of the text : ( 1 ) , Why the artisans were about the streets instead of being at work- " But indeed , sir , we make holiday , to see Cæsar and to rejoice in his triumph " ( thus linking up the play with the previous history ...
... examination of the text : ( 1 ) , Why the artisans were about the streets instead of being at work- " But indeed , sir , we make holiday , to see Cæsar and to rejoice in his triumph " ( thus linking up the play with the previous history ...
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... Examination of the Board of Education for the Teachers ' Certificate . The essays chosen are those by Carlyle , " On History " ; Macaulay on Ranke's History of the Popes " ; Bagehot on " Shakespeare - the Man " ; Newman , on ...
... Examination of the Board of Education for the Teachers ' Certificate . The essays chosen are those by Carlyle , " On History " ; Macaulay on Ranke's History of the Popes " ; Bagehot on " Shakespeare - the Man " ; Newman , on ...
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... Examination Papers of the last twenty years . ” ' It is generally felt by teachers of English that these papers are on antiquated lines and are in urgent need of reform , and it seems a pity to perpetuate them by reprinting . PICTURE ...
... Examination Papers of the last twenty years . ” ' It is generally felt by teachers of English that these papers are on antiquated lines and are in urgent need of reform , and it seems a pity to perpetuate them by reprinting . PICTURE ...
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... Examination for the Teacher's Certificate . Each member of the class was provided with a copy of the test , and was asked to read it through carefully several times and arrange the pieces in order of merit , giving the reason for his ...
... Examination for the Teacher's Certificate . Each member of the class was provided with a copy of the test , and was asked to read it through carefully several times and arrange the pieces in order of merit , giving the reason for his ...
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... examination , but that time is later on . Now that Shakespearean grammar and philology have been relegated to the background , the spirit of the play as a whole , rather than the letter of single lines , III TEACHING OF POETRY IN ...
... examination , but that time is later on . Now that Shakespearean grammar and philology have been relegated to the background , the spirit of the play as a whole , rather than the letter of single lines , III TEACHING OF POETRY IN ...
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Page 51 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 88 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 80 - This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 100 - I'm in the way ; And I will never move from where I stand." He said, " Dear child, I feared that you were dead,
Page 144 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 87 - On that hard Pagan world disgust And secret loathing fell. Deep weariness and sated lust Made human life a hell. "In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble lay; He drove abroad, in furious guise, Along the Appian way. "He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crown'd his hair with flowers — No easier nor no quicker pass'd The impracticable hours.
Page 174 - As we struggled on, nearer and nearer to the sea, from which this mighty wind was blowing dead on shore, its force became more and more terrific. Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips,' and showered salt rain upon us.
Page 78 - In the composing of his books he did rather drive at a masculine and clear expression than at any fineness or affectation of phrases, and would often ask if the meaning were expressed plainly enough, as being one that accounted words to be but subservient or ministerial to matter, and not the principal.
Page 196 - The aim of this course is to foster in the student the habit of intelligent reading and to develop a taste for good literature, by giving him a first-hand knowledge of some of its best specimens. He should read the books carefully, but his attention should not be so fixed upon details that he fails to appreciate the main purpose and charm of what he reads.
Page 10 - This is one of the few books which selection of sentiment and elegance of diction have been able to preserve, though written upon a subject flux and transitory.