The Fine Art of Writing, for Those who Teach itMacmillian Company, 1926 - 358 páginas |
Índice
| 3 | |
| 25 | |
| 35 | |
| 37 | |
| 49 | |
| 50 | |
| 52 | |
| 54 | |
| 137 | |
| 138 | |
| 139 | |
| 140 | |
| 141 | |
| 143 | |
| 145 | |
| 147 | |
| 56 | |
| 58 | |
| 59 | |
| 61 | |
| 62 | |
| 63 | |
| 64 | |
| 81 | |
| 87 | |
| 88 | |
| 91 | |
| 95 | |
| 96 | |
| 98 | |
| 99 | |
| 101 | |
| 102 | |
| 103 | |
| 104 | |
| 107 | |
| 116 | |
| 125 | |
| 136 | |
| 148 | |
| 149 | |
| 150 | |
| 151 | |
| 152 | |
| 153 | |
| 158 | |
| 159 | |
| 161 | |
| 162 | |
| 163 | |
| 164 | |
| 165 | |
| 166 | |
| 167 | |
| 171 | |
| 187 | |
| 309 | |
| 323 | |
| 337 | |
| 338 | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
argument Augustine Birrell Average number beauty beginning believe better cæsura Charlotte Brontë clear Company composition conference course criticism Dorothy Canfield Fisher effect English experience exposition expression feel fizis grades hence human ideas impressions interest Joseph Conrad kind Lafcadio Hearn language letter to H. R. S. literary literature living long theme matter Max Müller mean method mind narration narrative natural never notebook oral composition P. W. Long paragraph person phrase point of view practice prose purpose Quoted by Bainton Quoted by Mathews reader remember requiring revision rewriting Rhetoric Samuel Johnson semester sense sentence short theme simply speak speaker specimens speech spelling spirit story style success sure teacher teaching thing Thomas De Quincey thought tion true truth usually vivid WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR words writing written York young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 248 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Página 247 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Página 233 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 2yth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 218 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Página 246 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond, man, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains ; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb i for the great day of His wrath is come ; and who shall be able to stand ? Revelations vi.
Página 228 - ... the papers again by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Página 248 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página 218 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Página 296 - To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation — above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Página 247 - And I saw no temple therein ; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it : for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.