Rhetoric and the Study of LiteratureHenry Holt, 1913 - 410 páginas |
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... questions , which form a considerable part of the whole , are new - new and yet old , for little has gone into this book that has not been tried out repeatedly in class room . Indeed I have neither the courage nor the inclination to put ...
... questions , which form a considerable part of the whole , are new - new and yet old , for little has gone into this book that has not been tried out repeatedly in class room . Indeed I have neither the courage nor the inclination to put ...
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... QUESTIONS ON TYPICAL MASTERPIECES 360 George Eliot's Silas Marner 360 The De Coverley Papers 365 Macaulay's Samuel Johnson 375 Scott's Lady of the Lake 384 Goldsmith's Deserted Village 389 Milton's L'Allegro 394 Milton's Il Penseroso ...
... QUESTIONS ON TYPICAL MASTERPIECES 360 George Eliot's Silas Marner 360 The De Coverley Papers 365 Macaulay's Samuel Johnson 375 Scott's Lady of the Lake 384 Goldsmith's Deserted Village 389 Milton's L'Allegro 394 Milton's Il Penseroso ...
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... question designed to fix the reader's attention on the one thing the paragraph is intended to accomplish ; ( m ) a paragraph beginning with a general statement that is followed by specific items ; ( n ) a paragraph in which clearness is ...
... question designed to fix the reader's attention on the one thing the paragraph is intended to accomplish ; ( m ) a paragraph beginning with a general statement that is followed by specific items ; ( n ) a paragraph in which clearness is ...
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... question strictly as a matter of right , for it is a proposition in its nature so perfectly distinct from the expediency of the tax , that it must necessarily be taken separate , if there is any true logic in the world ; but of the ...
... question strictly as a matter of right , for it is a proposition in its nature so perfectly distinct from the expediency of the tax , that it must necessarily be taken separate , if there is any true logic in the world ; but of the ...
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... question cannot be given . We know , it is true , that force depends in a measure on wise choice of subject matter , some things being naturally more interesting than others and therefore more likely to stir the emotions . It is equally ...
... question cannot be given . We know , it is true , that force depends in a measure on wise choice of subject matter , some things being naturally more interesting than others and therefore more likely to stir the emotions . It is equally ...
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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!