Talks on Writing English: 1st SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 322 páginas |
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... never consciously said anything for the mere purpose of being amus- ing , and I have never been of the opinion that a book gains either in dignity or in usefulness by being dull . My purpose has throughout been sin- cerely serious , and ...
... never consciously said anything for the mere purpose of being amus- ing , and I have never been of the opinion that a book gains either in dignity or in usefulness by being dull . My purpose has throughout been sin- cerely serious , and ...
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... never been anything like a popular understanding of the difference be- tween spoken and written speech . Anybody is sup- posed to be able to talk , and to learn to do so uncon- sciously , a doctrine to which I do not wish to be ...
... never been anything like a popular understanding of the difference be- tween spoken and written speech . Anybody is sup- posed to be able to talk , and to learn to do so uncon- sciously , a doctrine to which I do not wish to be ...
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... and practical difficulties with which every writer must contend . The study of literary art , and indeed of all art , is in one sense an effort at approximation . Perfect expression can never be reached , and 6 TALKS ON WRITING ENGLISH.
... and practical difficulties with which every writer must contend . The study of literary art , and indeed of all art , is in one sense an effort at approximation . Perfect expression can never be reached , and 6 TALKS ON WRITING ENGLISH.
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1st Series Arlo Bates. approximation . Perfect expression can never be reached , and the thing after which a writer strives is to approach more and more closely toward that complete transmission of meaning which is forever unattainable ...
1st Series Arlo Bates. approximation . Perfect expression can never be reached , and the thing after which a writer strives is to approach more and more closely toward that complete transmission of meaning which is forever unattainable ...
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... never experiences the necessity of any exhaustive acquaintance with rhet- oric , or even of knowing much more than the out- side of the English grammar . The young women who are employed by enterprising journals to scram- ble around the ...
... never experiences the necessity of any exhaustive acquaintance with rhet- oric , or even of knowing much more than the out- side of the English grammar . The young women who are employed by enterprising journals to scram- ble around the ...
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able alliteration appear Argument ARLO BATES beautiful Bideford called character Charles Lamb Chaucer clear common convey course deal dialect difficult effect emotions endeavor English epigram especially essay essential Euroclydon example Exposition expression fact feel fiction force form of composition George Meredith give given Goethe Hester Prynne human idea idiom idiomatic illustration imagination important impression intellectual language less literary art literature Machiavelli matter means ment mental method mind moral Narration narrative nature necessary Norsemen novel novelist once paragraph perhaps periodic sentences phrase picture point of view possible practical principle produce proposition question reader realize reason Robert Elsmere Sartor Resartus Scarlet Letter seems sense sentence simile simple sort speak story student style suggestion sure syllogism tale talk tell tences thing thought tion tongue translation true truth uncon Walter Pater whole words written
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Página 8 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 302 - The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur, was present to my boyish imagination as far back as I can remember. It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town.
Página 175 - The conjurer juggles with two oranges, and our pleasure in beholding him springs from this, that neither is for an instant overlooked or sacrificed. So with the writer. His pattern, which is to please the supersensual ear, is yet addressed, throughout and first of all, to the demands of logic. Whatever be the obscurities, whatever the intricacies of the argument, the neatness of the fabric must not suffer, or the artist has been proved unequal to his design. And, on the other hand, no form of words...
Página 189 - Blanc! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form ! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air, and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look...
Página 80 - ... appeared the semblance of an engraved escutcheon. It bore a device, a herald's wording of which might serve for a motto and brief description of our now concluded legend; so sombre is it, and relieved only by one ever-glowing point of light gloomier than the shadow: — "ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES.
Página 98 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 40 - Every thing in him is in unmeasured abundance and unequalled perfection; but every thing so balanced and kept in subordination, as not to jostle or disturb, or take the place of another. The most exquisite poetical conceptions, images, and descriptions, are given with such brevity, and introduced with such skill, as merely to adorn, without loading the sense they accompany.
Página 114 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Página 54 - A close reasoner and a good writer in general may be known by his pertinent use of connectives. Read that page of Johnson ; you cannot alter one conjunction without spoiling the sense. It is a linked strain throughout. In your modern books, for the most part, the sentences in a page have the same connection with each other that marbles have in a bag ; they touch without adhering.