...reconstructing loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Example.—Take the following: We came to our journey's end, | at last, | with no small difficulty, | after much fatigue, 1 through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there being no less than five...

...complete. " At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather, we came to our journey's end." " At last, with no small difficulty, and after much fatigue, we came, through deep roads and bad weather, to our journey's end." EXERCISE...

...atque rotundus, thus: ascending in pitch on the italicised words, and descending on those underlined : We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather. Supposing, on the other hand, that the dashes marked by Dr. Whately indicate a pause and fall of the...

...small difficulty, to our journey's end." Contrast this with what is called the loose arrangement : " We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." f Here the sense would be complete, and the sentence might end, at any one of the five points indicated...

...addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited. 2. We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. The wonderful invention of Homer is what principally strikes us, on whatever side we contemplate...

...reconstructing loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Examplo. — Take the following : We came to our journey's end, | at last, | with no small difficulty, J after much fatigue, | through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there...

...might be terminated with strict grammatical accuracy.' Those places he indicates by dashes ( — ). We came to our journey's end — at last — with...much fatigue — through deep roads and bad weather. Now the above sentence, loose as it is, may be read so as to appear compact and almost unbroken. Lave...

...addressed on momentous oecasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited. 2. \Ve came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. The wonderful invention of Homer is what principally strikes us, on whatever side we contemplate...

...loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Example.—Take the following: TVe came to onr journey's end, | at last, | with no small difficulty,...fatigue, [ through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there being no less than fire different places, at any one of which...

...addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at staku, and strong passions excited. 2. We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. The wonderful invention of Homer is what principally strikes us, on whatever side we contemplate...