The Arts of Writing, Reading, and Speaking: In Letters to a Law StudentHorace Cox, 1867 - 336 pàgines |
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Pàgina 26
... unconsciously , to copy the language as well as the thoughts of the author . The best way to avoid this is to translate poetry into prose ; to take , for instance , a page of narrative in verse and relate the same story in plain prose ...
... unconsciously , to copy the language as well as the thoughts of the author . The best way to avoid this is to translate poetry into prose ; to take , for instance , a page of narrative in verse and relate the same story in plain prose ...
Pàgina 34
... unconsciously moulded to the individualities of the mind whence they come . This manner of expressing thought is style , and there- fore may style be described as the features of the mind displayed in its communications with other minds ...
... unconsciously moulded to the individualities of the mind whence they come . This manner of expressing thought is style , and there- fore may style be described as the features of the mind displayed in its communications with other minds ...
Pàgina 40
... unconsciously fall into the same vile habit , and incessant vigilance is required to restore you to sound , vigorous , manly , and wholesome English . I cannot recommend to you a better plan for counteracting the inevitable mischief ...
... unconsciously fall into the same vile habit , and incessant vigilance is required to restore you to sound , vigorous , manly , and wholesome English . I cannot recommend to you a better plan for counteracting the inevitable mischief ...
Pàgina 55
... unconsciously mould your sentences to the accustomed shape ; but persevere and you will certainly succeed at last , and your words will express your thoughts precisely as you think them , IX . THE ART OF WRITING . 55.
... unconsciously mould your sentences to the accustomed shape ; but persevere and you will certainly succeed at last , and your words will express your thoughts precisely as you think them , IX . THE ART OF WRITING . 55.
Pàgina 69
... unconsciously , without thinking how you are to articulate . When you can articulate your words well , turn your attention to the pronunciation of sentences . In learning to articulate , you have practised with single words , giving to ...
... unconsciously , without thinking how you are to articulate . When you can articulate your words well , turn your attention to the pronunciation of sentences . In learning to articulate , you have practised with single words , giving to ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 311 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Pàgina 130 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Pàgina 127 - Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards, his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Pàgina 314 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, — not without cause: What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Pàgina 125 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Pàgina 122 - To die, to sleep; To sleep perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pàgina 122 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Pàgina 133 - And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die. And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.
Pàgina 128 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Pàgina 317 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...