The Fine Art of Writing, for Those who Teach itMacmillian Company, 1926 - 358 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
annoo argument artist Augustine Birrell believe better cæsura Charlotte Brontë clear composition conference course criticism discover effect emotional English experience exposition expression feel grade hearers hence Honoré de Balzac human ideas impressions interest kind Lafcadio Hearn language letter to H. R. S. literary literature living long theme matter means method mind narration narrative natural never notebook oral composition P. W. Long paragraph person Philosophy of Composition phrase point of view practice Professor prose purpose Quoted by Bainton Quoted by Mathews reader remember requiring revision rewriting sense sentence short theme sort speak speaker specimens speech spelling spirit stimulating story style suggest sure symbols teacher teaching thing Thomas De Quincey thought tion true truth Typhoon vivid W. W. Jacobs words writing written York young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 245 - And I saw, and behold a white horse : and he that sat on him had a bow ; and a crown was given unto him : and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
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 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 233 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Página 246 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
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.