Words: Their Use and AbuseScott, Foresman, 1896 - 494 sider |
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... expression by the high thoughts it utters , or it may in itself become so saturated with warm life and delicious association that every sentence shall palpitate and thrill with the mere fascination of the syllables.- T. W. HIGGINSON ...
... expression by the high thoughts it utters , or it may in itself become so saturated with warm life and delicious association that every sentence shall palpitate and thrill with the mere fascination of the syllables.- T. W. HIGGINSON ...
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... expression of our will , turn . The soundness of our reasonings , the clearness of our belief and of our judgment , the influence we exert upon others , and the manner in which we are impressed by our fellow- men , - all depend upon a ...
... expression of our will , turn . The soundness of our reasonings , the clearness of our belief and of our judgment , the influence we exert upon others , and the manner in which we are impressed by our fellow- men , - all depend upon a ...
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... expression with a certain secret timidity , lest the lever should prove too ponderous for the hand that essays to wield it ; or rather , they resemble the rash student in the old legend , who was overmastered by the demons which he had ...
... expression with a certain secret timidity , lest the lever should prove too ponderous for the hand that essays to wield it ; or rather , they resemble the rash student in the old legend , who was overmastered by the demons which he had ...
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... expression ; that he has weighed , as in a hair - balance , the precise significance of every word he uses ; that he has conquered so completely the stubbornness of our vernacular as to render it a willing slave to all the whims and ...
... expression ; that he has weighed , as in a hair - balance , the precise significance of every word he uses ; that he has conquered so completely the stubbornness of our vernacular as to render it a willing slave to all the whims and ...
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... expression , so as to be above the necessity of using cheap and common words , or even using these with no subtle discrimination of their meanings . William Pinkney , the great American advocate , studied the English language profoundly ...
... expression , so as to be above the necessity of using cheap and common words , or even using these with no subtle discrimination of their meanings . William Pinkney , the great American advocate , studied the English language profoundly ...
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Æneid ages Anglo-Saxon Archbishop Whately beauty called century character Christian Cicero common convey corruption Demosthenes denote derived dictionary distinct eloquence employed England English language etymologists etymology expression fact feeling force foreign French genius German give Goethe grammar Greek guage heart horses human hundred ideas intellectual interjection J. H. Newman Latin learned less letter lines literature living London Lord Max Müller meaning meant Milton mind monosyllables moral nations nature ness never nickname once onomatopes onomatopoeia origin passage passion persons phrases poet poetry remark reply Roman Saxon says secret sense sentence Shakespeare signify Sir Thomas Browne solecisms sophism soul sound speak speakers speech spirit style Sydney Smith syllables tells term things thou thought thousand Thucydides thunder tion tongue translation true truth utter verb verbal verse vocabulary vulgar whole words writer
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Side 150 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Side 149 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Side 473 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Side 165 - While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Side 424 - 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 315 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure.
Side 140 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Side 134 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
Side 204 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Side 212 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.