English Prose StyleG. Bell, 1928 - 227 páginas |
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Balan Balin beauty C. M. DOUGHTY chapter character Coleridge colour composition D. H. LAWRENCE definition direct effect eloquence EMILY BRONTË emotion English prose epithets essay example expression eyes Fancy Fantasy father feeling fell Finisterre GEORGE SANTAYANA give head Henry James Huge Bear idea idiom Imagination implies instinctive jaca Jane Austen kind language LAURENCE STERNE literature little old Woman living logical look matter meaning merely metaphors Middle Bear mind mode mood narrative prose nature never night object paragraph passed passion perhaps periphrasis Philippe Soupault phrase poetic poetry porridge prose style quoted reason rhetoric rhythm rhythmical ROBERT SOUTHEY seemed sense sensibility sentence sound speech structure Swift T. S. Eliot things thou thought tion tradition tree uncle Toby unity voice W. H. Hudson Wee Bear whole words writer
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Página 104 - A certain man had two sons : and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Página 47 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and every where the blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected; and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival.
Página 105 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Página 105 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee. And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Página 5 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 146 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Página 50 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Página 145 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?
Página 41 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Página 159 - If it had not been for these thing I might have live out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have die, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph.