A Study of English Prose Writers: A Laboratory MethodC. Scribner's sons, 1898 - 879 páginas |
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... feels , and lives ; men in their re- lations with men ; and the phenomena presented in history and life he aimed to investigate as he would investigate the phenomena of the natural world . " - E . P. Whipple . " He had made an exact and ...
... feels , and lives ; men in their re- lations with men ; and the phenomena presented in history and life he aimed to investigate as he would investigate the phenomena of the natural world . " - E . P. Whipple . " He had made an exact and ...
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... little expres- sion of feeling ; the strength comes chiefly from conciseness , secured by comprehensive statement , pregnant metaphor , and occasional strokes of epigrammatic condensation . To read the productions 18 BACON.
... little expres- sion of feeling ; the strength comes chiefly from conciseness , secured by comprehensive statement , pregnant metaphor , and occasional strokes of epigrammatic condensation . To read the productions 18 BACON.
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... feelings of a profound and lofty spirit . To be universally intelligible is not the highest merit . A great mind cannot , without injurious restraint , shrink itself to the grasp of common , passive readers . Its natural movement is ...
... feelings of a profound and lofty spirit . To be universally intelligible is not the highest merit . A great mind cannot , without injurious restraint , shrink itself to the grasp of common , passive readers . Its natural movement is ...
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... feels its phrases as the natural ex- pression of his thoughts . He lived in the Bible till its words became his own . " - J . R. Green . " Bunyan had occasion to mention an entertainment . Every dish which he placed on the table is in ...
... feels its phrases as the natural ex- pression of his thoughts . He lived in the Bible till its words became his own . " - J . R. Green . " Bunyan had occasion to mention an entertainment . Every dish which he placed on the table is in ...
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... feeling which predominates throughout the book is a feeling of tenderness for weak , timid , and harassed 76 BUNYAN.
... feeling which predominates throughout the book is a feeling of tenderness for weak , timid , and harassed 76 BUNYAN.
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