Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly ModelsWilliam Maddux Tanner Atlantic monthly Company, 1917 - 307 pàgines |
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Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models William Maddux Tanner Visualització completa - 1918 |
Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models William Maddux Tanner Visualització completa - 1918 |
Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models William Maddux Tanner Visualització completa - 1918 |
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Pàgina 239 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's watery beams...
Pàgina 203 - A Moment's Halt — a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste — And Lo! — the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from — Oh, make haste!
Pàgina xx - The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric, in so far as it is moulded by some central mood — whimsical, serious, or satirical. Give the mood, and the essay, from the first sentence to the last, grows around it as the cocoon grows around the silkworm.
Pàgina 200 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Pàgina 295 - He is an old-fashioned letter-writer, the essence of the old fashion of letter-writing lying, as with true essay-writing, in the dexterous availing oneself of accident and circumstance, in the prosecution of deeper lines of observation ; although, just as with the record of his conversation, one loses something, in losing the actual tones of the stammerer, still graceful in his halting, as he halted also in composition, composing slowly and by fits,
Pàgina 163 - ... will at least concede their due merits to such representations as the following. In the first place, says the injured but calm appealer, I have been warm all night, and find my system in a state perfectly suitable to a warm-blooded animal. To get out of this state into the cold, besides the inharmonious and uncritical abruptness of the transition, is so unnatural to such a creature, that the poets, refining upon the tortures of the dumned, make one of their greatest agonies consist in being suddenly...
Pàgina 179 - You are only slightly acquainted, and neither your mutual relation nor the business in hand calls for anything but a very indifferent and matter-of-fact cast of countenance. But suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, this daughter of Eve is aware of a favorite young gentleman bowing and smiling from a rapidly passing carriage. Without moving her head, — there is not time for that, — but only her eyes, she flashes on her vanishing friend a bewitchingly intimate smile. Then she instantly looks...
Pàgina 146 - ... its simplest terms, why not model upon the wild Indian and be done with it ? What began in the schools has spread through every domain. Reading the advertising pages of a popular magazine, one is forced to conclude that the world is reaching the point described in the epitaph of the tired woman: — Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn for me never, For I 'm going to do nothing forever and ever. Here are a mechanical washer which will enable your wife to sit in a rocking-chair and read her Atlantic...
Pàgina 86 - Careless where our face is set, Let us take the open way. What we are no tongue has told us: Errand'goers who forget? Soldiers heedless of their harry? Pilgrim people gone astray? We have heard a voice cry "Wander!
Pàgina 160 - THE LIER IN BED IF I had to get on with but one article of furniture, I think I would choose a bed. One could if necessary sit, eat, read, and write in the bed. In past time it has been a social centre: the hostess received in it, the guests sat on benches, and the most distinguished visitor sat on the foot of the bed. It combines the uses of all the other articles in the '$198 de luxe special 4-room outfit...