The Writer's Art by Those who Have Practiced itHarvard University Press, 1921 - 357 pages |
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admire artist beautiful Besant called catalectic character colour composition consciousness convey copula course critics dénouement EDGAR ALLAN POE effect eloquence emotion English essay experience expression eyes fact fancy feel fiction force FRANK NORRIS genius GEORGE ELIOT give heart idea images imagination impression incident insincerity intellect language less literary Literature look Madame Bovary matter meaning ment mental Metonymy mind moral nature never Nevermore novel object observed once opinion orator original paint passion person Peter the Martyr philosopher phrases picture poem poet poetical poetry principle prose question Quoth the Raven Raven reader reason rience ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON seen sense sentence Shakspeare Sincerity sion soul speak speaker speech stanza story style success taste tell things thought tion tone true truth utter vision WILLIAM HAZLITT words write written York Sun
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Page 179 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar...
Page 143 - And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Page 180 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 180 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 63 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Page 182 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 78 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Page 127 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou...
Page 181 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 121 - ... from the sense of identity — of repetition. I resolved to diversify, and so heighten, the effect, by adhering, in general, to the monotone of sound, while I continually varied that of thought: that is to say, I determined to produce continuously novel effects, by the variation of the application of the refrain — the refrain itself remaining, for the most part, unvaried.