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... Variety of Words necessary . - Without wander- ing far into the field of conjecture , we can confident- ly assert that words are the necessary vehicles of ma- ture and various thought . As the skillful painter must have on his easel ...
... Variety of Words necessary . - Without wander- ing far into the field of conjecture , we can confident- ly assert that words are the necessary vehicles of ma- ture and various thought . As the skillful painter must have on his easel ...
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... variety of discourse , as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort ; so that these four causes con- curring , the admiration of ancient authors , the hate of the school - men , the exact study of languages ...
... variety of discourse , as the fittest and forciblest access into the capacity of the vulgar sort ; so that these four causes con- curring , the admiration of ancient authors , the hate of the school - men , the exact study of languages ...
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... Variety in this Matter to be cultivated . - The best writers employ a great variety of words , not con- fining themselves to the Anglo - Saxon or to the Latin- ized style . Much depends upon the nature of the subject , the character of ...
... Variety in this Matter to be cultivated . - The best writers employ a great variety of words , not con- fining themselves to the Anglo - Saxon or to the Latin- ized style . Much depends upon the nature of the subject , the character of ...
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... variety of choice and appropriate terms as can be commanded , provided that none are used superfluously . Also , while it is profitable to study carefully other languages , no per- son should presume to consider himself well educated ...
... variety of choice and appropriate terms as can be commanded , provided that none are used superfluously . Also , while it is profitable to study carefully other languages , no per- son should presume to consider himself well educated ...
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... variety of words , the thoughts and sentiments are not set off and accommodated ; but , like David dressed out and equipped in Saul's armor , they are encumbered and oppressed . " The sentence is greatly strengthened by omitting the ...
... variety of words , the thoughts and sentiments are not set off and accommodated ; but , like David dressed out and equipped in Saul's armor , they are encumbered and oppressed . " The sentence is greatly strengthened by omitting the ...
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Page 23 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand, — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low, — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him : he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 211 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Page 179 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 295 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, •To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean— roll!
Page 165 - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
Page 210 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Page 294 - THOU art, O God ! the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Page 219 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 166 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 325 - Rufus; the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty Kings; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of...