Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set... The Study and practice of writing English - Página 155por Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1914 - 342 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1901 - 1110 páginas
...to be an author (though I wished that, too) as that I had vowed that I would learn to write. . . . Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, 1 must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
| 1915 - 826 páginas
...but choose well." Let us see what an Artful Dodger did when he was on the " kinchin lay" : — • '' Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
| 1888 - 612 páginas
...wished to be an author (though I wished that too) as that I had vowed that I would learn to write. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...effect rendered with propriety, in which there was some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself... | |
| 1889 - 308 páginas
...Stevenson has said of himself during those years when he was laying the foundation of what he is to-day : " Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...some conspicuous force, or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
| 1910 - 724 páginas
...vocabulary. He tells us he had vowed he would learn to write, and says: "Whenever I read a book on a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a...rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conscious force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape... | |
| American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf - 1909 - 398 páginas
...think that this practice had much to do with his simple style and use of pure English. Stevenson says: "Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 páginas
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 páginas
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 páginas
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labours at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 460 páginas
...that there was perhaps more profit, as there was certainly more effort, in my secret labors at home. Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly...either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I... | |
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