The Journal of English Studies, Volume 1H. Marshall & Son., 1912 |
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... requires . What excuse can there be then , for wasting time - precious and all too scanty time - on a study which has no intrinsic value , and a purely conventional importance ? In sum , it is practically undisputed that all English ...
... requires . What excuse can there be then , for wasting time - precious and all too scanty time - on a study which has no intrinsic value , and a purely conventional importance ? In sum , it is practically undisputed that all English ...
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... requiring completeness rather than compression . This is almost entirely a composition exercise - it is not necessarily , like our second and third forms , a side issue of other lessons . Let us suppose , by way of example , that you ...
... requiring completeness rather than compression . This is almost entirely a composition exercise - it is not necessarily , like our second and third forms , a side issue of other lessons . Let us suppose , by way of example , that you ...
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... requires construction , discussion requires expansion . Further , recapitulation is largely an effort of recollection , and narration an effort of observation ; but discussion is an effort of invention . The note of a discussion should ...
... requires construction , discussion requires expansion . Further , recapitulation is largely an effort of recollection , and narration an effort of observation ; but discussion is an effort of invention . The note of a discussion should ...
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... require them to improvise something - say the meeting at Runnymede , with a boy for John , another for the Archbishop , others for certain barons , and the rest for alarums and excursions . I shall merely say of this that it is very ...
... require them to improvise something - say the meeting at Runnymede , with a boy for John , another for the Archbishop , others for certain barons , and the rest for alarums and excursions . I shall merely say of this that it is very ...
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... requires to be learnt as such . " This is putting the case very strongly , but in spite of Wordsworth's contention in the famous prefaces we shall probably all agree that the language of poetry and of the finest prose is undoubtedly not ...
... requires to be learnt as such . " This is putting the case very strongly , but in spite of Wordsworth's contention in the famous prefaces we shall probably all agree that the language of poetry and of the finest prose is undoubtedly not ...
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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.