Talks on Writing English: First considerations ; Little foxes ; Composition and revision ; Participles and gerunds ; Particles ; Parallel construction ; The topic sentence ; End and beginning ; Paragraphs ; The points of view ; Figures ; Exposition ; Description ; Narration ; Dialogue ; Punctuation ; Letter-writing ; Euphony ; The literary lifeHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 |
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Términos y frases comunes
able adjective Anthony Trollope appear ARLO BATES beginning clause clear clearly comparison complete composition conjunctions convey dance definite dialogue difference effect entirely eral evident example exposition expression fact fault feel figure force George Meredith gerund Gilbertine give given gyroscope Honoré de Balzac human idea illustration importance impression instance language less letter literary literature LITTLE FOXES matter means mental dexterity mind mood nature ness noun once paragraph parallel construction participle perhaps person phrase picture point of view possible prepositions principle produce pronoun proper prose reader realize relation River Shannon seems sense similes sort speaking speech spontaneity Stevenson story student style substantive sure Talks on Writing tence Tennyson theme things thought tion topic sentence train truth verb verbal noun verse Walter Pater white tigers whole wish words writer Writing English written
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Página 207 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 14 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 146 - A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought. Hence, good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories. This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation. It is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.
Página 146 - The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted by thought, it clothes itself in images.
Página 176 - Trollope, with his want of discretion in this particular. In a digression, a parenthesis or an aside, he concedes to the reader that he and this trusting friend are only "making believe.
Página 57 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Página 73 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 161 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.
Página 81 - In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole : and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Página 43 - I have said, simply to know the best that is known and thought in the world, and by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas.