The Elements of English CompositionWm. Whyte and Company, 1841 - 410 pages |
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... writers of acknowledged reputation . In many instances this was an easy task ; but in the classifi- cation of the different characters of style , it was attended with more difficulty and hazard . In esti- mating the merits and defects ...
... writers of acknowledged reputation . In many instances this was an easy task ; but in the classifi- cation of the different characters of style , it was attended with more difficulty and hazard . In esti- mating the merits and defects ...
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... writer . It was my first wish and intention to prepare a work which might have some claim to be considered as ... writers my obligations have been so numerous , that I forbore to quote them in the usual form ; 66 not that I might ...
... writer . It was my first wish and intention to prepare a work which might have some claim to be considered as ... writers my obligations have been so numerous , that I forbore to quote them in the usual form ; 66 not that I might ...
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... writer , are almost indiscriminately adopted ; and these are generally arranged without much attention to ele- gance or propriety . Thus , if we take a retrospective view of English literature at no very remote period , we shall often ...
... writer , are almost indiscriminately adopted ; and these are generally arranged without much attention to ele- gance or propriety . Thus , if we take a retrospective view of English literature at no very remote period , we shall often ...
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... writer , as there is between viewing an object by the light of the sun and by the light of a taper . Malebranche has assuredly fallen into a very strange conceit when he insinuates , that the pleasure arising from the perusal of a ...
... writer , as there is between viewing an object by the light of the sun and by the light of a taper . Malebranche has assuredly fallen into a very strange conceit when he insinuates , that the pleasure arising from the perusal of a ...
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... writers among us had considered the subject in the same gloomy point of view ; or at least that they had studiously avoided every refine- ment in style , as unbecoming a lover of truth and wisdom . Their sentiments are debased by the ...
... writers among us had considered the subject in the same gloomy point of view ; or at least that they had studiously avoided every refine- ment in style , as unbecoming a lover of truth and wisdom . Their sentiments are debased by the ...
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Page 188 - I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
Page 339 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 147 - Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 147 - 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.
Page 152 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love ; Behold, thou art fair ; Thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks : Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That appear from mount Gilead.
Page 11 - By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 140 - But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May.
Page 188 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Page 187 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 187 - 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...