The Method and Practice of Exposition: A Text-book for Advanced Students in Colleges and Universities

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Macmillan, 1917 - 278 páginas
 

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Página 189 - quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you, proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Página 47 - Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us back with age and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days.
Página 37 - age,— That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. It
Página 54 - vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory." That is his " writing " ; it is, in his small human way, and with whatever degree of true inspiration is in him, his inscription, or scripture. That is a " Book.
Página 102 - Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness as true as his speech.
Página 4 - out of their memories. What you think necessary for them to do, settle in them by an indispensable practice as often as the occasion returns; and, if it be possible, make occasions. This will beget habits in them which, being once established, operate of themselves easily and naturally without the assistance of memory.
Página 47 - with age and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. SIR WALTER
Página 186 - reflection begins to play upon those objects they are dissipated under its influence; the cohesive force seems suspended like some trick of magic ; each object is loosed into a group of impressions — colour, odour, texture — in the mind of the observer. And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world, not of
Página 88 - Given the conditions I have tried to explain as constituting good art ; — then, if it be devoted further to the increase of men's happiness, to the redemption of the oppressed, or the enlargement of our sympathies with each other, or to such presentment of
Página 172 - have come to believe that he, motionless as he is, does yet live in reality a deeper, more human, and more universal life than the lover who strangles his mistress, the captain who conquers in battle, or the husband who avenges his honour.

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