The Art of Writing English: A Book for College ClassesAmerican Book Company, 1913 - 382 pages |
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æsthetic appears argument ART WRIT artistic attitude Bailey Saunders beauty beginning character clear coherence complete concrete course definite demands effect emphasis employed English essay essential evidence example experience explain exposition expository express eyes fact familiar feeling George Herbert Palmer Gettysburg Address give hand ideas imagination important impression interest Jane Austen kind knowledge language literary lives look Lord John Russell material matter means mental method mind narration narrative nature never observation one's ourselves paragraph person phrase point of view possible practice principles purpose reader reason relation result revision Robert Louis Stevenson sentence simple Sisera skill sometimes spirit stand story student suggest sure T. B. Aldrich tence Tennessee's Partner Théophile Gautier things thought tion true truth unity usually Vanity Fair variety vocabulary whole composition words writer writing
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Page 216 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 59 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Page 85 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Page 84 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it.
Page 339 - And Deborah said unto Barak, Up ; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee ? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Page 157 - ... the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought, at the true purposes seized only at the last moment, at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view, at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable, at the cautious selections and rejections, at the painful erasures and interpolations...
Page 312 - The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within.
Page 219 - No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Page 333 - Far up into the recesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea, with the arbutus flowers dashed along their flanks for foam, and silver flakes of orange spray tossed into the air around them, breaking over the gray walls of rock into a thousand separate stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall.
Page 110 - And the king said, He also bringeth tidings. 27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.