The Mechanism of English StyleOxford University Press, American branch, 1916 - 291 pagina's |
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Pagina 30
... whole , but the two clauses of which it is composed are both long and both periodic . The portion of the second sentence fol- lowing the semicolon is exceptionally long and is periodic . The third sentence is wholly periodic . A reading ...
... whole , but the two clauses of which it is composed are both long and both periodic . The portion of the second sentence fol- lowing the semicolon is exceptionally long and is periodic . The third sentence is wholly periodic . A reading ...
Pagina 32
... whole speech . The second sentence and the third and the fourth begin in a like fashion . The clauses of the sixth sentence are parallel likewise , and the eighth sentence is a balanced sentence with a striking and memorable antithesis ...
... whole speech . The second sentence and the third and the fourth begin in a like fashion . The clauses of the sixth sentence are parallel likewise , and the eighth sentence is a balanced sentence with a striking and memorable antithesis ...
Pagina 57
... whole paragraph is no more than a tissue of words spun into something that might be pretty , if there were any fact back of the figure , if the colors were not so sure to fade as soon as you really look at them . The following paragraph ...
... whole paragraph is no more than a tissue of words spun into something that might be pretty , if there were any fact back of the figure , if the colors were not so sure to fade as soon as you really look at them . The following paragraph ...
Pagina 59
... whole matter goes back to the first sentence in the chapter . The form of any writing must have due relation to the subject - matter . That does not mean at all that simple things should be written in a style that is dull and plain ...
... whole matter goes back to the first sentence in the chapter . The form of any writing must have due relation to the subject - matter . That does not mean at all that simple things should be written in a style that is dull and plain ...
Pagina 64
... whole world . Though he moves in the very thickest of life , he is always surrounded by a self - built fortification of traditions and prejudices , and nothing short of a French Revolution or a Day of Judgment can make him look 64 THE ...
... whole world . Though he moves in the very thickest of life , he is always surrounded by a self - built fortification of traditions and prejudices , and nothing short of a French Revolution or a Day of Judgment can make him look 64 THE ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 176 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice called Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name...
Pagina 124 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Pagina 146 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Pagina 52 - He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men ; and that made him too much a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs.
Pagina 123 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as . a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical . terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Pagina 158 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Pagina 42 - Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing. Giants and the Genii, Multiplex of wing and eye, Whose strong obedience broke the sky When Solomon was king.
Pagina 176 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of representment, that I became in doubt which of them stood...
Pagina 120 - I walked," says he, with his own peculiar eloquence, to a neighbouring town ; and sat down upon a settle in the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and after long musing, I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give...
Pagina 98 - Her kingdom is not large, or else no flesh should live ; but within that kingdom all power is hers. Her head, turreted like that of Cybele, rises almost beyond the reach of sight. She droops not ; and her eyes rising so high might be hidden by distance ; but, being what they are, they cannot be hidden ; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for noon of day or noon of night, for ebbing or for flowing tide,...