The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarJames Thomas, 1825 - 312 עמודים |
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עמוד 3
... figurative language , apply equally to prose and to poetry : but the poets have fur- nished me with the most copious and beautiful illustrations . The rules of criticism are more successfully inculcated by particular PREFACE. ...
... figurative language , apply equally to prose and to poetry : but the poets have fur- nished me with the most copious and beautiful illustrations . The rules of criticism are more successfully inculcated by particular PREFACE. ...
עמוד 4
... particular examples than by ge- neral precepts . I have , therefore , endeavour- ed to collect abundance of apposite quotations , in order to illustrate every branch of the sub- ject . In many instances this was an easy task ; but in ...
... particular examples than by ge- neral precepts . I have , therefore , endeavour- ed to collect abundance of apposite quotations , in order to illustrate every branch of the sub- ject . In many instances this was an easy task ; but in ...
עמוד 78
... particular attention should be paid to the use of copulatives , relatives , and all the particles employed in transaction and connex- ion . The gracefulness and strength of a period must in a great measure depend on words of this ...
... particular attention should be paid to the use of copulatives , relatives , and all the particles employed in transaction and connex- ion . The gracefulness and strength of a period must in a great measure depend on words of this ...
עמוד 79
... particular attention , this sort of style is very proper . But in the ordinary current of discourse , it is better to express ourselves more sim- ply and briefly , " Nothing disgusts us sooner than the empty pomp of language . " On the ...
... particular attention , this sort of style is very proper . But in the ordinary current of discourse , it is better to express ourselves more sim- ply and briefly , " Nothing disgusts us sooner than the empty pomp of language . " On the ...
עמוד 85
... particular treatise , which is already prepared by me , on that subject . — Middleton's Free Inquiry . V. Sentences ought never to be concluded with words which make an inconsiderable figure . Such conclusions always have the effect of ...
... particular treatise , which is already prepared by me , on that subject . — Middleton's Free Inquiry . V. Sentences ought never to be concluded with words which make an inconsiderable figure . Such conclusions always have the effect of ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Addison adverb agreeable allegory ambiguity ancient appear Aristotle arrangement attention beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse character Cicero circumstance composition critical degree Demosthenes discourse Dissertation Dryden effect elegance elevation eloquence employed endeavour English English language Essay expression fancy figure frequently genius grace Greek harmony harsh hath History Homer humour idea imagination imitation instance introduced kind labour lambic language learning letters Lord Shaftesbury Macedon manner meaning ment metaphor mind nature never object observations occasion orator ornament passage passion perhaps period person personification perspicuity phrase Pindar Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry possessed precision proper propriety prose qualities Quintilian racter reader reason resemblance seems sense sentence sentiment Sermons simile simplicity sion Sir William Temple sound speak species Spectator strength style taste tence thing thou thought tion tragedy verb verse Virgil virtue vulgar words writer Xenophon
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 166 - way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beasts of the field doth devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and behold and visit this vine, and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch which thou
עמוד 133 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell: myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. Milton.
עמוד 137 - are of the same description. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that run down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that went down to the skirts of his
עמוד 93 - so full of goodly prospects, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming—Milton's Tractate of Education. Every thing in this sentence conspires to promote the harmony. The words are happily chosen, being full of soft and liquid sounds; laborious, smooth, green, goodly, melodious, charming: and these words are so
עמוד 119 - i Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow; As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breath a second spring.
עמוד 266 - esteem'da learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful: first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be
עמוד 160 - Spectator. The act of setting an edge, and the act of blowing up, bear no analogy to each other. The charm dissolves apace, And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
עמוד 133 - The following quotations will exemplify the manner in which this figure is used: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And 1 will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be
עמוד 21 - great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself am blind; Vet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And, binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.—Pope. Nor
עמוד 138 - within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which come up from the washing; whereof every one bears twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are as a thread of