Everybody's Writing-desk BookHarper & brothers, 1892 - 310 páginas |
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action adverb antonyms applied best pocket cyclopædia Brevier cents clause comma common compound sentence conjoin conjunction consonant copula correct corrupt cyclopædia ever issued denoted Double medium Duodecimo Durchlauchtigster English equal expression feminine gender German Grammar hand Herr honor horse idea implies indicate language Latin language less letter literally literary literature Long Primer Lord Madam margin mark masculine matter meaning ment metaphorically Monsieur ness neuter nominative noun noun or pronoun object obscure Octavo one's ounce paragraph personal pronoun persons or things phrase Pica Pilgrim's Progress plural poetry preceding predicate preposition present properly prose punctuation Quarto reader refers relative pronoun round Royal rule sense sentence signify singular Small Pica sometimes speak speaker speech statement style subjunctive subjunctive mood syllable tence tense thou thought tion tive transitive verb verb whole words writing WRITING-DESK BOOK
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Página 115 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Página 93 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Página 24 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them: They sank into the bottom as a stone.
Página 108 - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
Página 25 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited, as I may say, of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Página 44 - THE FUTURE of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has...
Página 16 - As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
Página 69 - Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good: to their improper, ill.
Página 25 - Amongst too many other Instances of the great Corruption and Degeneracy of the Age wherein we live, the great and general want of Sincerity in Conversation is none of the least. The World is grown so full of Dissimulation and Compliment, that Mens...
Página 114 - For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style. In style, to consider what ought to be written, and after what manner. He must first think, and excogitate his matter; then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely; and to do this with diligence...