The Art of Writing English: A Book for College ClassesAmerican Book Company, 1913 - 382 Seiten |
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æsthetic argument ART WRIT attitude beauty beginning better character clear coherence complete concrete course definite demands Develop effect emphasis employed English essay essential evidence example experience explanation expository express fact familiar feeling George Saintsbury Gettysburg Address give ideas imagination important impression instance instrumental exposition interest J. A. Symonds Jane Austen kind knowledge language literary lives look Lord John Russell material matter means mental mentation method mind narration narrative nature never observed one's ourselves paragraph person phrase point of view possible practice principles purpose reader reason relation result revision Robert Louis Stevenson sentence simple Sisera skill sometimes stand story student suggest sure T. B. Aldrich tence Tennessee's Partner Théophile Gautier things thought tion true truth unity usually Vanity Fair variety vocabulary whole composition words writer writing
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Seite 208 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Seite 59 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Seite 85 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Seite 211 - My Friends, No one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Seite 325 - And Deborah said unto Barak, Up ; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee ? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Seite 153 - ... the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought, at the true purposes seized only at the last moment, at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view, at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable, at the cautious selections and rejections, at the painful erasures and interpolations...
Seite 296 - The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within.
Seite 319 - Far up into the recesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea, with the arbutus flowers dashed along their flanks for foam, and silver flakes of orange spray tossed into the air around them, breaking over the gray walls of rock into a thousand separate stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall.
Seite 296 - In this there was much that reminded me of the specious totality of old woodwork which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance from the breath of the external air.
Seite 69 - Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted ; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.