The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition; a Treatise on Spelling, Abbreviations, the Compounding and Division of Words, the Proper Use of Figures and NummeralsCentury Company, 1901 - 472 páginas |
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The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition, a Treatise on Spelling ... Theodore Low De Vinne Visualização integral - 1901 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abbreviations apostrophe arabic figures beginning Bible blank cæsura capital letters Century Standard Webster chapter Chevillier clause colon comma Comparative list composition compositor compound consonant copy-holder correct curaçoa dash dictionary digitalin distinction divided edition English errors extract fault foot-notes frequently gaily gaily grammar hyphen inclose indention inserted irregular italic leveled leveled libeled libeled libeled list of variable manuscript marks method narrow measure needed nouns omitted orcin orpharion Oxford Divisions paragraph parentheses phrase piccadil picrotoxin points preferred prefixes printed printer printing-house pronunciation proof proof-reader proper names punctuation purpurin quercitrin quotation quotation-marks quote-marks quoted reader roman lower-case roman numerals rule sarmentose selected semicolon sentence separate side-notes small capitals sometimes sorbin spellings Century Standard Standard Webster Worcester style suberin subheadings syllable taboret tachylite teasel thin space tion title-pages typography usually variable spellings variable spellings Century vowel wapenshaw weregild white space writer xanthophyll zincite
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Página 223 - By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set : May'st hear the merry din." He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship,
Página 14 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Página 223 - And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win.' 'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little Peterkin: — 'Why, that I cannot tell,' said he, 'But 'twas a famous victory.
Página 213 - And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me : arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.
Página 212 - And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Página 262 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Página 265 - ... scholar's melancholy, which is emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical, nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's, which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Página 264 - ... the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all those things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield...
Página 265 - own exceeding great reward"; it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Página 282 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.