Words: Their Use and AbuseS. C. Griggs, 1878 - 384 strán (strany) |
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Strana 51
... simple words , " Who said that ? " An acute American writer observes that when Sir Edward Coke , a man essen- tially commonplace in his intellect and prejudices , though of vast acquirement and giant force of character , calls Sir ...
... simple words , " Who said that ? " An acute American writer observes that when Sir Edward Coke , a man essen- tially commonplace in his intellect and prejudices , though of vast acquirement and giant force of character , calls Sir ...
Strana 52
... simple words than ' green , ' ' sweetness , ' and ' rest , ' yet what depth and intensity of significance shines in Chaucer's ' green'- what a still ecstasy of religious bliss irradiates ' sweetness , ' as it drops from the pen of ...
... simple words than ' green , ' ' sweetness , ' and ' rest , ' yet what depth and intensity of significance shines in Chaucer's ' green'- what a still ecstasy of religious bliss irradiates ' sweetness , ' as it drops from the pen of ...
Strana 59
... simple , always clear , but never eloquent , the writer may be a very sensible man , but is too hard and dry to be a very great man . If , on the other hand , it is always elegant , rich in illustrations , and without the relief of simple ...
... simple , always clear , but never eloquent , the writer may be a very sensible man , but is too hard and dry to be a very great man . If , on the other hand , it is always elegant , rich in illustrations , and without the relief of simple ...
Strana 96
... simple Saxon is not good enough for their purposes , and so they array their ideas in " big , dictionary words , " derived from the Latin , and load their style with expletives as tasteless as the streamers of tattered finery that ...
... simple Saxon is not good enough for their purposes , and so they array their ideas in " big , dictionary words , " derived from the Latin , and load their style with expletives as tasteless as the streamers of tattered finery that ...
Strana 99
... simple and touching words , " Jesus wept , " - " Jesus , the Saviour of the world , overcome with grief , burst into a flood of tears " ? " Puppy ! " exclaimed the critic , as he threw down the book in a rage ; and had the author been ...
... simple and touching words , " Jesus wept , " - " Jesus , the Saviour of the world , overcome with grief , burst into a flood of tears " ? " Puppy ! " exclaimed the critic , as he threw down the book in a rage ; and had the author been ...
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adjective ages Anglo-Saxon Archbishop Whately beauty called century character charm Cicero common corruption Demosthenes derived diction dictionary distinction eloquence England English language etymologists etymology expression fact familiar feeling force French genius German give Greek guage heart human hundred ideas intellectual J. H. Newman Latin learned less letter literature living London Lord Max Müller meaning meant Milton mind modern monosyllables moral murder nations nature never nickname once orator origin passage persons phrases poet poetry reader remarkable reply rhetoric rience Roman Roundhead Rufus Choate SAMUEL BAILEY Saxon says secret sense sentence Shakspeare significance solecisms sophism soul sound speak speakers speech spirit style Sydney Smith syllables talk tell term things thought Thucydides tion tongue translation true truth utterance verb verbal verse vocabulary vulgar W. D. WHITNEY whole words writer
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Strana 129 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Strana 366 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Strana 129 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Strana 122 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Strana 182 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Strana 140 - While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Strana 324 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Strana 253 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure.
Strana 77 - John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, - without Greek Contrived to talk about the Gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate: 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article.
Strana 174 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.