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... 274 . 8 Student's theme . 4 E. A. Freeman . 5 William Morris : The Story of the Glittering Plain . * Archbishop Trench : Lectures on Plutarch . 7 A. C. Swinburne : Essays and Studies . exits ; " 1 mote , as in " So 26 GRAMMATICAL PURITY .
... 274 . 8 Student's theme . 4 E. A. Freeman . 5 William Morris : The Story of the Glittering Plain . * Archbishop Trench : Lectures on Plutarch . 7 A. C. Swinburne : Essays and Studies . exits ; " 1 mote , as in " So 26 GRAMMATICAL PURITY .
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... story , running off into hackneyed French , Italian , or Latin expressions whenever he has anything to say which he thinks should be graphically or emphatically said . It really seems as if he thought the English language too meagre ...
... story , running off into hackneyed French , Italian , or Latin expressions whenever he has anything to say which he thinks should be graphically or emphatically said . It really seems as if he thought the English language too meagre ...
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... stories ; " 1 and after " lest , " as in " He fled , lest he should be imprisoned . " Would is sometimes used to signify habitual action , as in " The ' Squire would sometimes fall asleep in the most pathetic part of my sermon ; " 2 and ...
... stories ; " 1 and after " lest , " as in " He fled , lest he should be imprisoned . " Would is sometimes used to signify habitual action , as in " The ' Squire would sometimes fall asleep in the most pathetic part of my sermon ; " 2 and ...
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... story at a headlong pace , sketching in the outlines under the genial and audacious impulse of a first conception , and securing in black and white each idea and epithet and turn of phrase , as it flowed straight from his busy brain to ...
... story at a headlong pace , sketching in the outlines under the genial and audacious impulse of a first conception , and securing in black and white each idea and epithet and turn of phrase , as it flowed straight from his busy brain to ...
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... 1 William Morris : The Story of the Glittering Plain . 2 See page 65 . 4 Ibid . , book ii . chap . ii . 3 E. F. Benson : The Rubicon , book i . chap . iii . - In the following example , but is misused in 88 RHETORICAL EXCELLENCE .
... 1 William Morris : The Story of the Glittering Plain . 2 See page 65 . 4 Ibid . , book ii . chap . ii . 3 E. F. Benson : The Rubicon , book i . chap . iii . - In the following example , but is misused in 88 RHETORICAL EXCELLENCE .
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Page 63 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Page 166 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 192 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Page 154 - 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 165 - 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 173 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Page 80 - 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 154 - 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 5 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.
Page 176 - 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...