The Essentials of Prose CompositionEldredge & Brother, 1901 - 162 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 17
Página 18
... habit of examining for himself in like manner the sentence - structure of the English classics ; only by virtue of this habit can he hope to acquire familiarity with the essentials of expression . The sentence is , after all , the unit ...
... habit of examining for himself in like manner the sentence - structure of the English classics ; only by virtue of this habit can he hope to acquire familiarity with the essentials of expression . The sentence is , after all , the unit ...
Página 19
... habit of arranging his thoughts in conditioned form , instead of stringing them loosely together . See §§ 15-17 , 36 ... habits of thought . Very few things resem- ble each other so nearly that we can safely balance one with the other in ...
... habit of arranging his thoughts in conditioned form , instead of stringing them loosely together . See §§ 15-17 , 36 ... habits of thought . Very few things resem- ble each other so nearly that we can safely balance one with the other in ...
Página 47
... habit of picking your sentences to pieces . to discover misplaced words and phrases . Do not rest until you are satisfied that you cannot possibly arrange the words better . Mr. will deliver a lecture upon the value of exercise. 66 Try ...
... habit of picking your sentences to pieces . to discover misplaced words and phrases . Do not rest until you are satisfied that you cannot possibly arrange the words better . Mr. will deliver a lecture upon the value of exercise. 66 Try ...
Página 60
... and hence we acquire a habit of throwing them in loosely in the course of a period . But in writing , where a man speaks to the eye , and 1 Hill , Foundations , p . 220 . not to the ear , he ought to be more 60 PROSE COMPOSITION .
... and hence we acquire a habit of throwing them in loosely in the course of a period . But in writing , where a man speaks to the eye , and 1 Hill , Foundations , p . 220 . not to the ear , he ought to be more 60 PROSE COMPOSITION .
Página 65
... habit of condensing is not readily acquired ; when acquired , how- ever , it is very effective . Concise expression saves the reader much time and quickens his understanding . 1. Adverbs . — Learn to avoid the tame and irritating for ...
... habit of condensing is not readily acquired ; when acquired , how- ever , it is very effective . Concise expression saves the reader much time and quickens his understanding . 1. Adverbs . — Learn to avoid the tame and irritating for ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles acquired Addison adverb Anne Boleyn ARNOLD assertion awkward bear-baiting beginning blunders bridge called Chingachgook clause clear composition conditioned statement connection contrast correct Edinburgh Review effect ELIOT English Ernest never essay example expression eyes force forcible formula Foundations of Rhetoric George Eliot give grammatical habit hand Hawkeye Hill independent paragraph King link-paragraph look Macaulay Magua manner marked matter MATTHEW ARNOLD means merely Milton mind modified narration neatness ness never object paper party passed peculiar periodic sentence poet principle proper QUINCEY reader relative clause Repeated Structure Roger treated scholars school and college sense sentence of conditioned sentence-structure sequence short Silas Marner Sir Launfal Sir Roger specimen Spectator student teacher tence Theme Theseus things thought tion told topic-sentence truth Uncas unity usually verb whereas whole woman word or phrase writer young
Pasajes populares
Página 113 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 36 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Página 23 - Books were flung aside without being put away on the shelves, inkstands were overturned, benches thrown down, and the whole school was turned loose an hour before the usual time, bursting forth like a legion of young imps, yelping and racketing about the green in joy at their early emancipation. The gallant Ichabod now spent at least...
Página 124 - ... be inapplicable, or if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last — to comply with the American spirit as necessary ; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
Página 122 - I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring tranquillity ; and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them.
Página 118 - The grand power of poetry is its interpretative power ; by which I mean, not a power of drawing out in black and white an explanation of the mystery of the universe, but the power of so dealing with things as to awaken in \. us a wonderfully full, new, and intimate sense of them, <C and of our relations with them.
Página 104 - ... under the stern of the queen's boat, where she sat beneath an awning, attended by two or three ladies, and the nobles of her household. She looked more than once at the wherry in which the young adventurer was seated, spoke to those around her, and seemed to laugh.
Página 92 - Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
Página 16 - Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets, — Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second. He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly that it is not worth while to place them. Eclipse is first, and the rest nowhere.
Página 104 - At length one of the attendants, by the queen's order apparently, made a sign for the wherry to come alongside, and the young man was desired to step from his own skiff into the queen's barge, "which he performed with graceful agility at the fore part of the boat, and was brought aft to the queen's presence, the wherry at the same time dropping into the rear.