The Structure of English Prose: A Manual of Composition and RhetoricA.C. Armstrong & Son, 1885 - 331 pagina's |
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Structure of English Prose: A Manuel of Composition and Rhetoric John George Repplier McElroy Volledige weergave - 1895 |
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addressed adverb Anglo-Saxon archaisms argument Bain beautiful better Brevity Cæsar Canon character clauses clear commonly conjunction connectives construction course defined definition diction discussion distinction effect Elements of Style English essay examples Explanation feeling figures Figures of Speech French George Eliot give Grammatical Greek hand hearer Hence Herbert Spencer intended judgment Julius Cæsar language Latin laws laws of Form less literary Macaulay meaning Middlemarch mind Minto mode nature never nomothetical noun object oration paragraph perhaps person phrases PLEONASM poetic Poetry present principles Prof pronoun proposition Prose Purity Qualities of Style question Quincey Quintilian quoted reader reason Representative Discourse Rhetoric rhythm Romance rule sense sentence Shakspere simply speak speaker speech statement sub-divisions Synecdoche tence theme Theremin things tion translation true truth Unity usage verb verse Violations vulgar Webster Webster's Dictionary words writer
Populaire passages
Pagina 264 - The upper air burst into life ! And a hundred fire-flags sheen, To and fro they were hurried about ! And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between.
Pagina 147 - The Prince of Cumberland ! that is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ; Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Pagina 165 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them: thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Pagina 302 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Pagina 50 - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law ; but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pagina 276 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Pagina 270 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Pagina 42 - When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel...
Pagina 241 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 43 - ... the truth of the human heart - has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing or creation. If he think fit, also, he may so manage his atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture.