The Writer's Blue Book: A Useful Manual for All who Write, Particularly for Editors, Reporters, Proof-readers, Typewriters, Clerks ...Crown Publishing Company, 1902 - 82 páginas |
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Página 34 - I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings,' says Coleridge, in the Preface to his Poems; 'and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me, its "own exceeding great reward"; it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Página 14 - I went down the road; and by the time t had come as far as the manse, the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs, and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away. Mr. Campbell, the minister of Essendean, was waiting for me by the garden gate, good man!
Página 59 - Harvard sends out men—some of them high scholars—whose manuscripts would disgrace a boy of 12; and yet the college can hardly be blamed, for she can not be expected to conduct an infant school for adults.
Página 22 - And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.'' Does this mean, And the fools that came, though they came to scoff, remained to pray, or does it mean that some of the fools that came, came to scoff, and these remained to pray ? Probably the former is the meaning, but as the line stands, this, no matter how general the opinion, can be only conjecture, as every one must admit that the meaning intended may be the latter. If the latter is the meaning, it is clear that the proper relative to use is...
Página 38 - ... should be separated by commas; as, Ulysses was wise, eloquent, cautious, and intrepid, as was requisite in a leader of men. He stood, walked, ran, and jumped. If the words are used in pairs, only the pairs should be separated ; as, Ulysses was wise and eloquent, cautious and intrepid, as was, etc. 9. When two statements, each with its own subject, verb, and object, are put in one sentence, the comma should be used to show their distinctiveness, even when the sentence is very short: as, You may...
Página 36 - When two adjectives come together, the second qualifying the noun, and the first qualifying the noun as thus qualified by the second, the two adjectives are not in the same construction...
Página 26 - Wrong principle that the time of the action recorded tenses. i na subordinate part of the sentence is not absolute, but relative to the time of the principal clause; and that, therefore, the tense of a dependent verb is determined by its relation to the verb on which it depends. " I expected to have found him...
Página 25 - In this example, the thing possessed being one and the same thing, the sign applies equally to each of the three possessive Nouns. But "Peter's, Joseph's...
Página 12 - I most gratefully acknowledge that I have never gone through the sheets of any book that I have written without having had presented to me by the corrector of the press something that I have overlooked, some slight inconsistency into which I have fallen, some little lapse I have made...
Página 35 - Teall, in his work, has a single rule (with five specifications thereunder) for use of the comma : "Insert a comma after each slightest break of connection in the grammatical construction of a clause or sentence, but not where the words are closely connected in sense.