The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, 第 3 巻Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... Language - the causes which contri- bute to the improvement or alteration of PAGE . 82 99 110 810 it . The progress of the English language 120 CXIV . History of Frederic CXV . Letter from an Etonian , containing a vin- dication and ...
... Language - the causes which contri- bute to the improvement or alteration of PAGE . 82 99 110 810 it . The progress of the English language 120 CXIV . History of Frederic CXV . Letter from an Etonian , containing a vin- dication and ...
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... language ; but very few are truly simple , ner- vous , or elegant . Some styles , like handsome faces , are spoiled ... languages , like men by whom they are framed , will be imperfect ; yet every endeavour to trace the sources of cor ...
... language ; but very few are truly simple , ner- vous , or elegant . Some styles , like handsome faces , are spoiled ... languages , like men by whom they are framed , will be imperfect ; yet every endeavour to trace the sources of cor ...
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... language that , in his master - hand , like a well - tuned in- strument , " discourses most eloquent music , " under their management utters nothing but dis- cord . The rattling of their periods and tumi- dity of their phrases , like ...
... language that , in his master - hand , like a well - tuned in- strument , " discourses most eloquent music , " under their management utters nothing but dis- cord . The rattling of their periods and tumi- dity of their phrases , like ...
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... language , appears the most studied and unnatural . An adopted word is but a partial and trifling innovation , and is often happily incorporated , when care is taken to naturalise the foreigner , by giving a national air to the turn of ...
... language , appears the most studied and unnatural . An adopted word is but a partial and trifling innovation , and is often happily incorporated , when care is taken to naturalise the foreigner , by giving a national air to the turn of ...
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... language , living or dead , from a grammar or dictionary , but by reading the best authors , and partaking of the best conversation . He , who habituates himself to such studies and such society , without pro- posing to himself a ...
... language , living or dead , from a grammar or dictionary , but by reading the best authors , and partaking of the best conversation . He , who habituates himself to such studies and such society , without pro- posing to himself a ...
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236 ページ - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
236 ページ - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
236 ページ - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
149 ページ - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
160 ページ - That reaching home, the night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here — The new acquaintance soon became a guest, -And made so welcome at their simple feast...
149 ページ - His prose is the model of the middle style; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences.
201 ページ - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shalt arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.
54 ページ - For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best.
151 ページ - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
37 ページ - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.