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... connected with its lofty avenues , 1 Dickens : Our Mutual Friend , book iii . chap . xv . 2 American newspaper . 8 From the Message of a President of the United States . 4 Swift : A Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue . 5 ...
... connected with its lofty avenues , 1 Dickens : Our Mutual Friend , book iii . chap . xv . 2 American newspaper . 8 From the Message of a President of the United States . 4 Swift : A Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue . 5 ...
Page 76
... connections become conspicuous and finally odious . Some time ago the favorite slang word of literature was ' certain . ' Every heroine had a certain nameless charm , ' etc. , and every hero a ' cer- tain air of distinction ' about him ...
... connections become conspicuous and finally odious . Some time ago the favorite slang word of literature was ' certain . ' Every heroine had a certain nameless charm , ' etc. , and every hero a ' cer- tain air of distinction ' about him ...
Page 87
... connection of thought , one that serves no purpose is worse than useless , and one used for an unsuitable pur- pose leads astray . But and and are frequent offenders in both ways . They are properly used to connect words or clauses ...
... connection of thought , one that serves no purpose is worse than useless , and one used for an unsuitable pur- pose leads astray . But and and are frequent offenders in both ways . They are properly used to connect words or clauses ...
Page 88
... connection with the following but , it offends against ease . But is sometimes so used as to perplex the reader . For example : - " Her white hands lay in his great brown paws , like little patches of snow in some sheltered nook of the ...
... connection with the following but , it offends against ease . But is sometimes so used as to perplex the reader . For example : - " Her white hands lay in his great brown paws , like little patches of snow in some sheltered nook of the ...
Page 89
... connection or of co - ordination . It is so used in the Bible , in children's stories , and in books that aim at a conversational style . While is another conjunction that is misused in various ways : " The array moved on accordingly ...
... connection or of co - ordination . It is so used in the Bible , in children's stories , and in books that aim at a conversational style . While is another conjunction that is misused in various ways : " The array moved on accordingly ...
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American newspaper analogy antecedent probability Anthony Trollope argue argument arrangement authors Bagheera Barchester Towers beginning better Burke called chap character Charles Reade clearness composition Daniel Webster Disraeli E. F. Benson ease effect English Essays example exposition expression fact fallacy feelings following passage force George Eliot give hand Herbert Spencer History Ibid idea instance J. S. Mill kind language lect less look Lord Macaulay Martin Chuzzlewit matter Matthew Arnold means ment metaphor method Middlemarch Milton mind Miss Marjoribanks narration narrative nature never object observation paragraph persons phrase poetry poets present principle proposition prose purpose question Quincey Quintilian Quoted reader reason Rhetoric rule scene Scott sect sense sentence Shakspere simile sometimes speak Spectator speech story Student's theme style tell tence Thackeray thing thou thought tion truth unity verb whole words writer
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Page 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Page 162 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 152 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 163 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 392 - The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Page 78 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Page 126 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Page 164 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 152 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 219 - VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...