A Study of English Prose Writers: A Laboratory MethodC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 879 Seiten |
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... never hope for the cheerful dawn , never more hear the bird of morning sing . " — Animadver- sions , etc. " Then , amidst the hymns and hallelujahs of saints , someone may , perhaps , be heard offering at high strains in new and lofty ...
... never hope for the cheerful dawn , never more hear the bird of morning sing . " — Animadver- sions , etc. " Then , amidst the hymns and hallelujahs of saints , someone may , perhaps , be heard offering at high strains in new and lofty ...
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... never a superfluous detail . Every stroke tells , and helps to the completeness of the por- traiture . " His diction bears plainly the marks of the few books that he knew , and knew so well . His constant compan- ions were the Bible and ...
... never a superfluous detail . Every stroke tells , and helps to the completeness of the por- traiture . " His diction bears plainly the marks of the few books that he knew , and knew so well . His constant compan- ions were the Bible and ...
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... never vulgar , homely but never coarse , and still less unclean ; full of imagery but never obscure , always intelligible , always forcible , going straight to the point in the fewest and simplest words . It may indeed be affirmed that ...
... never vulgar , homely but never coarse , and still less unclean ; full of imagery but never obscure , always intelligible , always forcible , going straight to the point in the fewest and simplest words . It may indeed be affirmed that ...
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... never having felt that he is a stranger and a pilgrim in a world of temptations and snares , can see but half the beauty of such poetry as fills this work , because it cannot make its appeal to his own experience . Of the faithfulness ...
... never having felt that he is a stranger and a pilgrim in a world of temptations and snares , can see but half the beauty of such poetry as fills this work , because it cannot make its appeal to his own experience . Of the faithfulness ...
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... never confused , inconsistent , or mechanical . On the contrary , they are vivid , life - like , and always full of ... never draw us so far aside that we forget the main story , but rather contribute to its effect . . Bunyan's ...
... never confused , inconsistent , or mechanical . On the contrary , they are vivid , life - like , and always full of ... never draw us so far aside that we forget the main story , but rather contribute to its effect . . Bunyan's ...
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