The Bible and English Prose Style: Selections and CommentsAlbert Stanburrough Cook 1903 |
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Pàgina xii
... never die . The murmuring of many voices , the upturning of many faces , the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd , so that it swells forward in a mass , like one great heave of water , all flashes away . Twenty ...
... never die . The murmuring of many voices , the upturning of many faces , the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd , so that it swells forward in a mass , like one great heave of water , all flashes away . Twenty ...
Pàgina xiv
... never degrades ; but is best in that it seems to have drawn from the same perennial fountains as the Bible itself , instead of merely standing to it in a dependent and derivative relation . One or two familiar extracts from Bunyan will ...
... never degrades ; but is best in that it seems to have drawn from the same perennial fountains as the Bible itself , instead of merely standing to it in a dependent and derivative relation . One or two familiar extracts from Bunyan will ...
Pàgina xvi
... never have been at the pains to define to himself just what those characteristics are . To my mind they may be summed up in a very brief phrase . Whatever their number or variety , I think they may all be comprehended under a single ...
... never have been at the pains to define to himself just what those characteristics are . To my mind they may be summed up in a very brief phrase . Whatever their number or variety , I think they may all be comprehended under a single ...
Pàgina xviii
... metaphoric language and in the rhythm . However lofty or sublime be the sentiment , the diction is concrete , never abstract . Every chapter with comparatively few exceptions - is a gallery of word - xviii INTRODUCTION .
... metaphoric language and in the rhythm . However lofty or sublime be the sentiment , the diction is concrete , never abstract . Every chapter with comparatively few exceptions - is a gallery of word - xviii INTRODUCTION .
Pàgina xxviii
... never ceased till I went to Oxford . She read alternate verses with me , watching , at first , every intonation of my voice , and correcting the false ones , till she made me understand the verse , if within my reach , rightly , and ...
... never ceased till I went to Oxford . She read alternate verses with me , watching , at first , every intonation of my voice , and correcting the false ones , till she made me understand the verse , if within my reach , rightly , and ...
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The Bible and English Prose Style: Selections and Comments Ed. with an ... Albert Stanburrough Cook Visualització completa - 1908 |
The Bible and English Prose Style: Selections and Comments Albert Stanburrough Cook Visualització completa - 1906 |
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according to thy apostles Aryan beasts behold Biblical Blessed children of Israel children of men Christ Cloth dead rise delight diction earth Edited enemies English Bible English language evil expression fear giveth glory gnomic poetry hand hath Hebrew poetry HIRAM CORSON holy Homer iniquity Introduction price Jerusalem keep thy king kingdom of heaven Latin literary literature Matthew Arnold mercy Moab Moses mouth nature parallel passage poem pray Prometheus Unbound prophets Psalm quicken rejoice Rhetoric rhythm righteous say unto Scripture Semitic languages sentence shalt thou simplicity soul speak speech style supplication things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought thy commandments thy judgments thy law thy name thy people Israel thy precepts thy right thy servant thy statutes thy testimonies thy word tongue translation truth understanding unto the LORD unto thee unto thy verse voice whosoever wicked wisdom
Passatges populars
Pàgina 52 - king, knoweth of these things, before whom, also, I speak " freely : for, I am persuaded, that none of these things, are " hidden from him ; for, this thing, was not done in a corner.
Pàgina 51 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Pàgina 48 - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?
Pàgina xxvi - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes "Woe unto the world because of offenses: for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom...
Pàgina 1 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Pàgina 19 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Pàgina 43 - Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven ; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Pàgina 54 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Pàgina 50 - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem : and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme ; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Pàgina 47 - Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?