The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a General Treatise on Composition and Style: Instruction in English Composition, with Exercises for Paraphrasing; and an Elaborate Letter-writer's Vademecum, in which are Numerous Rules and Suggestions Relating to the Epistolary ArtJ.B. Lippincott, 1900 - 555 páginas |
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... POETRY - Thomas Warton REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE- Edmund Burke . • 250 250 THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE - Edward Gibbon • • 251 IVANHOE - Sir Walter Scott • • • THE CHILD ANGEL : A DREAM ...
... POETRY - Thomas Warton REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE- Edmund Burke . • 250 250 THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE - Edward Gibbon • • 251 IVANHOE - Sir Walter Scott • • • THE CHILD ANGEL : A DREAM ...
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... poet who did indeed win himself a place amongst the immortals in spite of the chilling reception of his first work ... poetic nature - proceeds meekly to alter his best poems to please a pompous unknown , only remembered now because he ...
... poet who did indeed win himself a place amongst the immortals in spite of the chilling reception of his first work ... poetic nature - proceeds meekly to alter his best poems to please a pompous unknown , only remembered now because he ...
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... poet of Cowley ; Pope found his inspiration in Ogilby's Homer ; and Erasmus learnt to write in his own perfect style by the loving study of Terence and Jerome . And the pleasures of authorship are not merely dreams of a dim future but ...
... poet of Cowley ; Pope found his inspiration in Ogilby's Homer ; and Erasmus learnt to write in his own perfect style by the loving study of Terence and Jerome . And the pleasures of authorship are not merely dreams of a dim future but ...
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... poet but lately arrived in Elysium , whom I saw Spen- ser lead in , and present him to Virgil ? -Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead . This was WHOM . Here the pronouns they , he 30 Composition and Style . Grammatical Errors in the use ...
... poet but lately arrived in Elysium , whom I saw Spen- ser lead in , and present him to Virgil ? -Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead . This was WHOM . Here the pronouns they , he 30 Composition and Style . Grammatical Errors in the use ...
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... poetry in so unenlightened a period , the world would have lost his refined diction and harmonious versifica- tion . Warton's Observations on Spenser . Every book ought to be read with the same spirit , and in the same manner as it is ...
... poetry in so unenlightened a period , the world would have lost his refined diction and harmonious versifica- tion . Warton's Observations on Spenser . Every book ought to be read with the same spirit , and in the same manner as it is ...
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Página 162 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
Página 85 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, . Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 120 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Página 231 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 238 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands...
Página 84 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 232 - He is many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 113 - But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment; and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Página 236 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, 'Surely,' said I, 'man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Página 46 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?