Syllabi of the American Society for the Extension of University TeachingAmerican Society for Extension of University Teaching., 1897 |
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... style is usually fine , smooth , graceful , liquid , elegant . It is frequently loose , diffuse , elaborate , flowery , equivocal and involved . Always self - conscious , Lytton is sometimes dogmatic and dictatorial . Often in our ...
... style is usually fine , smooth , graceful , liquid , elegant . It is frequently loose , diffuse , elaborate , flowery , equivocal and involved . Always self - conscious , Lytton is sometimes dogmatic and dictatorial . Often in our ...
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... style ? His vocabulary ? 2. Discuss the headings of chapters and names of characters in ' Vanity Fair . ' 3. What are the sources of Thackeray's humor ? 4. What are the objects and methods of Thackeray's satire ? 5. Does ' Vanity Fair ...
... style ? His vocabulary ? 2. Discuss the headings of chapters and names of characters in ' Vanity Fair . ' 3. What are the sources of Thackeray's humor ? 4. What are the objects and methods of Thackeray's satire ? 5. Does ' Vanity Fair ...
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... style has no claim to the adjective " elegant " and is open to criticism ; his vividness often becomes exaggeration , his characterizations caricatures ; his lack of literary training and independence of accepted models are evident ...
... style has no claim to the adjective " elegant " and is open to criticism ; his vividness often becomes exaggeration , his characterizations caricatures ; his lack of literary training and independence of accepted models are evident ...
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... style is not suffi- ciently formed , and the seriousness of the author is too evident . George Eliot realized these limitations as well as the reader , and said , concerning her greatest : " It is my way ( rather too much so , perhaps ) ...
... style is not suffi- ciently formed , and the seriousness of the author is too evident . George Eliot realized these limitations as well as the reader , and said , concerning her greatest : " It is my way ( rather too much so , perhaps ) ...
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... style , 7. Is there justification for the statement that her works are too subjective and lack restraint ? 8. Is George Eliot's method of emphasizing her moral purpose in writing the most effective ? 9. What was the effect on her work ...
... style , 7. Is there justification for the statement that her works are too subjective and lack restraint ? 8. Is George Eliot's method of emphasizing her moral purpose in writing the most effective ? 9. What was the effect on her work ...
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Página 21 - That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Página 22 - Where low.browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high.minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain...
Página 16 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 23 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you.
Página 43 - And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Página 1 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Página 33 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 7 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows : — "Friends," says he, "the taxes are indeed very heavy; and, if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver...
Página 7 - Far-called, our navies melt away, On dune and headland sinks the fire; Lo all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre. Judge of the nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
Página 15 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.