The Journal of English Studies, Volume 1H. Marshall & Son., 1912 |
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... phrases of literary gossip , book notes , potted reviews and inspired announce- ments . The deftest way , perhaps , is to evacuate the capital and to escape into a land where books exist certainly , but in a state of suspended animation ...
... phrases of literary gossip , book notes , potted reviews and inspired announce- ments . The deftest way , perhaps , is to evacuate the capital and to escape into a land where books exist certainly , but in a state of suspended animation ...
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... phrase : " read only for his style , " assumes that there is no difficulty about defining style ; that the distinction between style and matter is too simple 66 and obvious to need exposition . But the passage 12 THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH ...
... phrase : " read only for his style , " assumes that there is no difficulty about defining style ; that the distinction between style and matter is too simple 66 and obvious to need exposition . But the passage 12 THE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH ...
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... rash to conclude , with some , that cloudiness of phrase is the sure correlative of cloudiness of thought . Much thinking is done without any verbal process ; and if a clear statement may convey and 13 BACON AS WRITER.
... rash to conclude , with some , that cloudiness of phrase is the sure correlative of cloudiness of thought . Much thinking is done without any verbal process ; and if a clear statement may convey and 13 BACON AS WRITER.
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... phrase , matter and form , whatever we understand by these terms ; but not even the strength of the style could attract many students were there no question of ascertaining the content of the Hobbesian system of political philosophy ...
... phrase , matter and form , whatever we understand by these terms ; but not even the strength of the style could attract many students were there no question of ascertaining the content of the Hobbesian system of political philosophy ...
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... phrase of his at random — for instance , this from the Hydriotaphia : - " Pyramids , arches , obelisks , were but the irregularities of vain glory , and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity . " Here the three most sonorous words are ...
... phrase of his at random — for instance , this from the Hydriotaphia : - " Pyramids , arches , obelisks , were but the irregularities of vain glory , and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity . " Here the three most sonorous words are ...
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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.