Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His SonBradford and Inskeep, 1809 - 363 ページ |
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... correct and agreeable style . What I have now observed ought not to lessen the value of this accomplishment of writing well in your opinion . The more general it is , the more indispensa- ble it becomes . To be able to maintain an ...
... correct and agreeable style . What I have now observed ought not to lessen the value of this accomplishment of writing well in your opinion . The more general it is , the more indispensa- ble it becomes . To be able to maintain an ...
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... correctly classed , the va- rious causes of that fanciful agreement which produce risible emotions . I. Under that of contiguity we may arrange , 1st . Bodily singularities , including a grotesque dress or manner . 2d . Groups of ...
... correctly classed , the va- rious causes of that fanciful agreement which produce risible emotions . I. Under that of contiguity we may arrange , 1st . Bodily singularities , including a grotesque dress or manner . 2d . Groups of ...
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... correct himself . " I should say eye , for h'ad but one , " As authors write , though some say none . " A witty as well as most eloquent senator of our own times , has often employed this stroke of humour with infinite effect ...
... correct himself . " I should say eye , for h'ad but one , " As authors write , though some say none . " A witty as well as most eloquent senator of our own times , has often employed this stroke of humour with infinite effect ...
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... correct Pope is not above a pun .... " Here thou , great Anna , whom three realms obey , " Dost sometimes counsel take , and sometimes tea . " LETTER VII . LANGUAGE ..... PERSPICUITY ..... PURITY . MY THE LUDICROUS . 39 . The Ludicrous.
... correct Pope is not above a pun .... " Here thou , great Anna , whom three realms obey , " Dost sometimes counsel take , and sometimes tea . " LETTER VII . LANGUAGE ..... PERSPICUITY ..... PURITY . MY THE LUDICROUS . 39 . The Ludicrous.
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... correct and elegant use of language . The only foundation of a good style , as far as respects the use of words , is an extensive and accurate know- ledge of the language in which we write . One of the principal advantages resulting ...
... correct and elegant use of language . The only foundation of a good style , as far as respects the use of words , is an extensive and accurate know- ledge of the language in which we write . One of the principal advantages resulting ...
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76 ページ - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out of the windows, be darkened ; And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
15 ページ - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...
23 ページ - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
298 ページ - Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee, All that summer hours produce. Fertile made with early juice : Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
69 ページ - Are they Hebrews ? so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am I ; Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they the ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft...
78 ページ - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
273 ページ - Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
122 ページ - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
206 ページ - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
74 ページ - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.