Rhetoric and the Study of LiteratureHenry Holt, 1913 - 410 páginas |
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... give one of the following titles : What the dictionary tells How to use a dictionary Half an hour with the dictionary 7 Here are a few specimens of bad English such as is shamefully common even among high school graduates . If you find ...
... give one of the following titles : What the dictionary tells How to use a dictionary Half an hour with the dictionary 7 Here are a few specimens of bad English such as is shamefully common even among high school graduates . If you find ...
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... give what he does not possess , cannot impart to others that which he him- self does not know perfectly . We may have found through unpleasant experience that a half - mastered proposition in geometry leads to a hazy demonstration ; or ...
... give what he does not possess , cannot impart to others that which he him- self does not know perfectly . We may have found through unpleasant experience that a half - mastered proposition in geometry leads to a hazy demonstration ; or ...
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... give so largely to strength . But Lydon , except that he was slender even almost to meager- ness , was beautifully and delicately proportioned ; and the skilful might have perceived that with much less compass of muscle CLEARNESS 33.
... give so largely to strength . But Lydon , except that he was slender even almost to meager- ness , was beautifully and delicately proportioned ; and the skilful might have perceived that with much less compass of muscle CLEARNESS 33.
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... give permanent satisfaction to your people ; and ( far from a scheme of ruling by discord ) to reconcile them to each other in the same act , and by the bond of the very same interest , which reconciles them to British government ...
... give permanent satisfaction to your people ; and ( far from a scheme of ruling by discord ) to reconcile them to each other in the same act , and by the bond of the very same interest , which reconciles them to British government ...
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... give forth directions too much at large , except they be bounded in by experience . Crafty men contemn studies , simple men admire them , and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use , but that is wisdom without them and ...
... give forth directions too much at large , except they be bounded in by experience . Crafty men contemn studies , simple men admire them , and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use , but that is wisdom without them and ...
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Página 219 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 233 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd, With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon, Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez, and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon.
Página 344 - What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Página 233 - ST. AGNES' EVE— Ah, bitter chill it was ! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold...
Página 231 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Página 212 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Página 44 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Página 215 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells.' How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Página 215 - HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells— What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 41 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!