The Mechanism of English StyleOxford University Press, American branch, 1916 - 291 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... merely statements of the way things work . As laws of writing or painting or any other art , they are intensely human , because they are laws of our response to words , colors , sounds , and all the varied phenomena of the world that ...
... merely statements of the way things work . As laws of writing or painting or any other art , they are intensely human , because they are laws of our response to words , colors , sounds , and all the varied phenomena of the world that ...
Pagina 12
... merely as an aid in starting our investigation of any writer's style and of the means by which its qualities have been attained . In the first place , it will appear that the qualities of an im- personal style are in a large degree ...
... merely as an aid in starting our investigation of any writer's style and of the means by which its qualities have been attained . In the first place , it will appear that the qualities of an im- personal style are in a large degree ...
Pagina 16
... mere fact of size , but , if we look at it here , we shall see that it is size deter- mined by the writer's feeling ... merely that these adjectives , together with a considerable number of the nouns , constitute a substantial body of ...
... mere fact of size , but , if we look at it here , we shall see that it is size deter- mined by the writer's feeling ... merely that these adjectives , together with a considerable number of the nouns , constitute a substantial body of ...
Pagina 24
... mere matter of numbers . The groupings of the facts , then , and the threads that hold the groups together must be a new thing in each person who surveys them , puts them together , and tries to see what they mean in the mass . 21. In ...
... mere matter of numbers . The groupings of the facts , then , and the threads that hold the groups together must be a new thing in each person who surveys them , puts them together , and tries to see what they mean in the mass . 21. In ...
Pagina 25
... mere manner , or , say , even of dress . Yes ! there were the evils , the vices , which he avoided as , essentially , a soil . An assent , such as this , to the preferences of others might seem to be the weakest of motives , and the ...
... mere manner , or , say , even of dress . Yes ! there were the evils , the vices , which he avoided as , essentially , a soil . An assent , such as this , to the preferences of others might seem to be the weakest of motives , and the ...
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Pagina 31 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of...
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...