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... frequently violated than this . The young writer , afraid of seeming bald and dull , has recourse to an ornamental synonym to give a sparkle to his style . * But this kind of tinsel adornment pleases none except persons of wholly ...
... frequently violated than this . The young writer , afraid of seeming bald and dull , has recourse to an ornamental synonym to give a sparkle to his style . * But this kind of tinsel adornment pleases none except persons of wholly ...
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... could scarcely make their way in the face of the storm . 5. The road was frequently intersected by torrents . 6. The torrents might almost be called rivers . B. 1. He had been induced to trust himself at 16 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... could scarcely make their way in the face of the storm . 5. The road was frequently intersected by torrents . 6. The torrents might almost be called rivers . B. 1. He had been induced to trust himself at 16 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... frequent repetition of such words as he , she , it , they , has often a vulgarizing effect , as will be observed in some of the examples given below . Here is a conspicuous instance of the kind of abuse of Pronouns now under ...
... frequent repetition of such words as he , she , it , they , has often a vulgarizing effect , as will be observed in some of the examples given below . Here is a conspicuous instance of the kind of abuse of Pronouns now under ...
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... frequent among men as women [ viz . in Abyssinia ] is for a certainty very surprising . It is very common among them ... frequently was from a more competent to a less competent court . " ( Moles . H. E. iii . 73. ) The opening of the ...
... frequent among men as women [ viz . in Abyssinia ] is for a certainty very surprising . It is very common among them ... frequently was from a more competent to a less competent court . " ( Moles . H. E. iii . 73. ) The opening of the ...
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... frequently marked by the same laxity . The subject present to the writer's mind at the beginning of a sentence has perhaps given place to another , without his being aware of the change , and the pronoun consequently refers to a ...
... frequently marked by the same laxity . The subject present to the writer's mind at the beginning of a sentence has perhaps given place to another , without his being aware of the change , and the pronoun consequently refers to a ...
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Page 123 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 122 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 121 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 158 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 32 - Far in the bosom of Helvellyn, Remote from public Road or Dwelling, Pathway, or cultivated land ; From trace of human foot or hand. There, sometimes does a leaping Fish Send through the Tarn a lonely cheer...
Page 165 - Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things.
Page 130 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Page 34 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 168 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.