The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 strán (strany) |
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... principal object to treat of prose composition , yet a few observations on poetry inci- dentally occur . The remarks which have been sug- gested with regard to the nature of figurative language , apply equally to prose and to poetry but ...
... principal object to treat of prose composition , yet a few observations on poetry inci- dentally occur . The remarks which have been sug- gested with regard to the nature of figurative language , apply equally to prose and to poetry but ...
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... principal idea ; but always express it with some diversity in the circum- stances . They are varied by some accessory idea which severally accompanies each of the words , and which forms the distinction between them . As they are like ...
... principal idea ; but always express it with some diversity in the circum- stances . They are varied by some accessory idea which severally accompanies each of the words , and which forms the distinction between them . As they are like ...
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... Principal of Marischal College , Aberdeen . Edinb . 1803 , 8vo . - In the essen- tial qualities of originalty and energy , these sermons are greatly superior to Dr. Blair's . The fourth of them , " On the Nature , the Causes , and the ...
... Principal of Marischal College , Aberdeen . Edinb . 1803 , 8vo . - In the essen- tial qualities of originalty and energy , these sermons are greatly superior to Dr. Blair's . The fourth of them , " On the Nature , the Causes , and the ...
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... principal circumstances which contribute to perspicuity , and the various modes in which the laws relating to it may be transgressed , I shall conclude the subject by inquiring whether it be possible that this essential quality of style ...
... principal circumstances which contribute to perspicuity , and the various modes in which the laws relating to it may be transgressed , I shall conclude the subject by inquiring whether it be possible that this essential quality of style ...
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... principal object in this sentence , is the death of Tullia , which was the cause of her father's affliction . The time when the event took place is , without any . impropriety , pointed out in the course of the sentence ; but the ...
... principal object in this sentence , is the death of Tullia , which was the cause of her father's affliction . The time when the event took place is , without any . impropriety , pointed out in the course of the sentence ; but the ...
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Strana 127 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Strana 141 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Strana 294 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Strana 138 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Strana 262 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Strana 298 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Strana 165 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Strana 141 - Death? perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Strana 163 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Strana 316 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their Letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.