Model English: The qualities of style. 1919Allyn and Bacon, 1919 |
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Pàgina 3
... kind ( right word ) and exactly in degree ( accurate word ) . words will insure a full expression of your thought . He goes away ; walks away ; limps away ; rides away . The verbs express different kinds of going . He goes away ...
... kind ( right word ) and exactly in degree ( accurate word ) . words will insure a full expression of your thought . He goes away ; walks away ; limps away ; rides away . The verbs express different kinds of going . He goes away ...
Pàgina 4
... kind , mortmain and contingent remainders ; if you detest the provisions of its habeas corpus , quare impedit and quitam ( hear , hear ) ; if you scorn the mummeries of its wigs and bands and coifs and ermine ( vehement cheering ) ; if ...
... kind , mortmain and contingent remainders ; if you detest the provisions of its habeas corpus , quare impedit and quitam ( hear , hear ) ; if you scorn the mummeries of its wigs and bands and coifs and ermine ( vehement cheering ) ; if ...
Pàgina 10
... kind ) and the Tailor and the Miller Lawn - mowers ( two kinds ) . 12. Repeat prepositions , especially where other preposi- tions intervene . He was the first who taught me to weigh my words , and to be cautious in my statements . He ...
... kind ) and the Tailor and the Miller Lawn - mowers ( two kinds ) . 12. Repeat prepositions , especially where other preposi- tions intervene . He was the first who taught me to weigh my words , and to be cautious in my statements . He ...
Pàgina 15
... kind . If I lived even with Friday in Juan Fernandez , either Friday must do all the darning , or else it must go undone . The better men that I meant were the sailors in the British navy , every man of whom mends his own stockings ...
... kind . If I lived even with Friday in Juan Fernandez , either Friday must do all the darning , or else it must go undone . The better men that I meant were the sailors in the British navy , every man of whom mends his own stockings ...
Pàgina 40
... kind of dependent phrases ( dependent repetition ) is objectionable , as , to strive to learn to write ; lives of writers of books of travel ; sentence which has variety which pleases the mind which is distracted by monotony . A ...
... kind of dependent phrases ( dependent repetition ) is objectionable , as , to strive to learn to write ; lives of writers of books of travel ; sentence which has variety which pleases the mind which is distracted by monotony . A ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
alliteration America Arnold beauty Benedict Arnold better character Church clear Columbus comparison composition concrete contrast definition Deioces Demosthenes Edited emotions Encyclopédie English enumeration essay evil EXERCISE exposition expression flowers force gives heart Homer human humor ideas Iliad imagination Inland Voyage instances interest Isocrates iteration kind land language liberty lion literature live look MACAULAY means mind Miss Gibbs mountain nation nature never NEWMAN night No-man Note onomatopeia paragraph particular passage person phrases picture Pictures from Italy Poems poet poetry Polyphemus predicate present proof proposition prose prove reading republic of Venice Rock of Cashel ruin RUSKIN scene sentence Shakespeare song speaker speech story street student style Subjects Describe tell things thought tion topic trait truth Ulysses variety verse Virgil Warren Hastings Wendell Phillips words writing
Passatges populars
Pàgina 152 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Pàgina 116 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Pàgina 273 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread...
Pàgina 159 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history — the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill ; and there they will remain forever.
Pàgina 40 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; 3 till I am known, and do not want it.
Pàgina 88 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pàgina 20 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds : Your heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet,...
Pàgina 54 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in. And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roar'd ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside. And stemming it with hearts of controversy : But, ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried,
Pàgina 283 - Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook the mighty deep.
Pàgina 20 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.