The Foundations of RhetoricHarpers & Bros., 1892 - 337 sider |
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... obscure poverty of his old age form an interesting chapter in the romance of letters . II . His humble birth his scholar- ship and the obscure poverty of his old age forms an interesting chapter in the romance of letters . " Birth ...
... obscure poverty of his old age form an interesting chapter in the romance of letters . II . His humble birth his scholar- ship and the obscure poverty of his old age forms an interesting chapter in the romance of letters . " Birth ...
Side 150
... obscure . A hasty reader might suppose that " of " was the word to be supplied . The omission of " to " in sentences like that given in the last example is stigmatized by " The Spectator " as an " excruciating commercialism . " This ...
... obscure . A hasty reader might suppose that " of " was the word to be supplied . The omission of " to " in sentences like that given in the last example is stigmatized by " The Spectator " as an " excruciating commercialism . " This ...
Side 159
... obscure . In these examples , " but " is the equivalent of " only . " Few , however , even of those who write " I have not seen her but once , " would write " I have not seen her only once . " " Only " seems to bring out the double ...
... obscure . In these examples , " but " is the equivalent of " only . " Few , however , even of those who write " I have not seen her but once , " would write " I have not seen her only once . " " Only " seems to bring out the double ...
Side 176
... obscure what might otherwise be clear , to sacrifice sense to sound , to degrade noble language to ignoble ends , or to gratify a dis- torted sense of humor . Big words abound in the second - rate novels and news- papers that form the ...
... obscure what might otherwise be clear , to sacrifice sense to sound , to degrade noble language to ignoble ends , or to gratify a dis- torted sense of humor . Big words abound in the second - rate novels and news- papers that form the ...
Side 201
... obscure or weak or clumsy ; in the effort to be clear , he may become diffuse or stiff ; in the effort to be forcible , he may become obscure or harsh ; the effort to acquire ease , he may become flippant , or weak and wordy ; in the ...
... obscure or weak or clumsy ; in the effort to be clear , he may become diffuse or stiff ; in the effort to be forcible , he may become obscure or harsh ; the effort to acquire ease , he may become flippant , or weak and wordy ; in the ...
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Side 251 - But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection, and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
Side 195 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Side 190 - Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...
Side 195 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Side 189 - There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill ; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Side 30 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Side 195 - I love to see the look with which it braves, Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time, The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves.
Side 251 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.
Side 281 - I had put my housewife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid ; but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table. I was reading it to Mrs. Cole, and, since she went away, I was reading it again to my mother, for it is such a pleasure to her — a letter from...
Side 189 - Amid yon tuft of hazel trees That twinkle to the gusty breeze, Behold him perched in ecstasies, Yet seeming still to hover; There! where the flutter of his wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over.