A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A. C. McClurg, 1903 - 415 páginas |
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Página xviii
... James translation of the Bible . It is a curious thing that a translation should give us new forms of prose style , and that we should so constantly refer to the English Bible rather than simply to the xviii General Introduction.
... James translation of the Bible . It is a curious thing that a translation should give us new forms of prose style , and that we should so constantly refer to the English Bible rather than simply to the xviii General Introduction.
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... thing , as when we say , " That's his style . " It is a serious misfortune that when we speak of " prose we must think inevitably of that which is dull and commonplace , and when we speak of style that we must think of the " styles ...
... thing , as when we say , " That's his style . " It is a serious misfortune that when we speak of " prose we must think inevitably of that which is dull and commonplace , and when we speak of style that we must think of the " styles ...
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... thing , one word to call it by , one adjective to qualify , one verb to animate it , he gave himself to superhuman labor for the discovery , in every phrase , of that word , that verb , that epithet . In this way , he believed in some ...
... thing , one word to call it by , one adjective to qualify , one verb to animate it , he gave himself to superhuman labor for the discovery , in every phrase , of that word , that verb , that epithet . In this way , he believed in some ...
Página xxxviii
... thing in particular to say , and I see no special use that my writings will have after I produce them . But my friends Mary Jones and John Jenks have made fortunes out of books , and I can't see that they have any more ideas than I have ...
... thing in particular to say , and I see no special use that my writings will have after I produce them . But my friends Mary Jones and John Jenks have made fortunes out of books , and I can't see that they have any more ideas than I have ...
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... thing about verse is that the regular beat stays by a man whether he wants it or not , and if it does not come naturally on suggestion of his ear , he feels obliged to force it even when the result is totally destruc- tive of harmony ...
... thing about verse is that the regular beat stays by a man whether he wants it or not , and if it does not come naturally on suggestion of his ear , he feels obliged to force it even when the result is totally destruc- tive of harmony ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 7 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 246 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 8 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 7 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 12 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Página 8 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Página 281 - Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Página 13 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Página 20 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Página 90 - ... indefinable sweetness growing up to it —the tender blossoming of fat — fat cropped in the bud — taken in the shoot — in the first innocence — the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food — the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal manna — or, rather, fat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into each other, that both together make but one ambrosian result or common substance. Behold him while he is doing — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than...