The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 |
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... epistolary composition . To be ab able to maintain a friendly correspondence with propriety and elegance is assuredly a very desirable accom- plishment . " plishment . This branch of composition ought there- fore iv PREFACE .
... epistolary composition . To be ab able to maintain a friendly correspondence with propriety and elegance is assuredly a very desirable accom- plishment . " plishment . This branch of composition ought there- fore iv PREFACE .
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... elegance or propriety . Thus , if we take a retrospective view of English lite- rature at no very remote period , we shall often find the beauty beauty of the thought obscured by the meanness of the OF THE LIBRAR INTRODUCTION .
... elegance or propriety . Thus , if we take a retrospective view of English lite- rature at no very remote period , we shall often find the beauty beauty of the thought obscured by the meanness of the OF THE LIBRAR INTRODUCTION .
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... elegance . The literary world cannot sufficiently regret that the treatise which he wrote upon this sub- ject , has perished along with many other valuable works of the same age . But although we are deprived of the benefit of his ...
... elegance . The literary world cannot sufficiently regret that the treatise which he wrote upon this sub- ject , has perished along with many other valuable works of the same age . But although we are deprived of the benefit of his ...
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... elegance , he was more studious and successful than any other English author in producing a proper intermixture of long and short sentences , with variety and harmony in their structure . Having offered these observations with regard to ...
... elegance , he was more studious and successful than any other English author in producing a proper intermixture of long and short sentences , with variety and harmony in their structure . Having offered these observations with regard to ...
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... elegance and harmony , so that their mutual relation may be plainly perceived . I. Ambiguities are frequently occasioned by the im- proper use of the adverb . This part of speech , as its name implies , is generally placed close or near ...
... elegance and harmony , so that their mutual relation may be plainly perceived . I. Ambiguities are frequently occasioned by the im- proper use of the adverb . This part of speech , as its name implies , is generally placed close or near ...
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Strona 127 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Strona 141 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Strona 294 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Strona 138 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Strona 262 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Strona 298 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Strona 165 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Strona 141 - Death? perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Strona 163 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Strona 316 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their Letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.