A First Book in Writing EnglishMacmillan, 1899 - 293 pagina's |
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Pagina 24 - that highly — not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. — Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.
Pagina 88 - goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for likening his father to a singing man of Windsor; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy
Pagina 102 - Revolution; hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist, alienation and distrust, are the growth, unnatural to such soils, of false principles since sown. They are weeds, the seeds of which that same great arm never scattered.
Pagina 244 - appeals to the human animal's dread of deep water : he makes Cardinal Wolsey say, " I have ventured, like wanton boys that swim on bladders, this many summers in a sea of glory." In Macbeth he appeals to the joy of release from pain: he calls sleep the balm of each day's hurt. A good figure of speech must be consistent. Although a lively imagination changes its
Pagina 167 - I believe, then, with this exception, that a girl's education should be nearly, in its course and material of study, the same as a boy's; but [entirely] differently directed.- A woman in any rank of life ought to know whatever her husband is [liable] to know, but to know it in a different way.
Pagina 139 - Well, whatever bit of a wise man's work is honestly and benevolently done, that bit is his book, or his piece of art. But, again, I ask you, do you at all believe in honesty or at all in kindness, or do you think there is never any honesty or benevolence in wise people
Pagina 24 - 5. 0, there be players that I have seen play, — and heard others praise, and that highly — not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. — Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.
Pagina 93 - my hand slipped upon an edge and found nothing but emptiness beyond it. 8. I returned to the kitchen; I made up such a blaze as had not shone there for many a long year; I wrapped myself in my plaid; I lay down upon the chests and fell asleep.
Pagina 69 - the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.
Pagina 93 - this curse fell pat, like a wayside omen, to arrest me; it took the pith out of my legs. 6. I was called in at last; my uncle counted out into my hand seven and thirty golden guinea pieces. 7. I had come close to one of the turns in the stair; I felt my way as