English and EngineeringFrank Aydelotte McGraw-Hill Book Company, Incorporated, 1917 - 390 sider |
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... lives . This selection on the art of writing is typical of his point of view toward all the arts . Following to some extent the lead of Carlyle , Ruskin attacked the problems of nineteenth - century industrialism in a way which has had ...
... lives . This selection on the art of writing is typical of his point of view toward all the arts . Following to some extent the lead of Carlyle , Ruskin attacked the problems of nineteenth - century industrialism in a way which has had ...
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... trilogy , Clayhanger , Hilda Lessways , and These Twain , the Old Wives ' Tale , Buried Alive , Milestones , and How to Live on 24 Hours a Day . - EDITOR . gantly in a costume of style , in order to 4 THE QUESTION OF STYLE By Arnold ...
... trilogy , Clayhanger , Hilda Lessways , and These Twain , the Old Wives ' Tale , Buried Alive , Milestones , and How to Live on 24 Hours a Day . - EDITOR . gantly in a costume of style , in order to 4 THE QUESTION OF STYLE By Arnold ...
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... live in the memory as one of the rare great Tenny- sonian lines ? It does not . It has charm , but the charm is merely curious or pretty . A whole poem composed of lines with no better recommendation than that line has would remain ...
... live in the memory as one of the rare great Tenny- sonian lines ? It does not . It has charm , but the charm is merely curious or pretty . A whole poem composed of lines with no better recommendation than that line has would remain ...
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... live and fulfill its mission . The whole purpose for which language is employed is to impress our thought upon others in such a way that they shall feel or think or act as we desire . To attain this end it is essential that we make ...
... live and fulfill its mission . The whole purpose for which language is employed is to impress our thought upon others in such a way that they shall feel or think or act as we desire . To attain this end it is essential that we make ...
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... live after the manners of the vulgar ; but that I call custom of speech , which is the consent of the learned ; as custom of life , which is the consent of the good . " 1 66 " 6 The dictum of Horace , indeed , has hardly been called in ...
... live after the manners of the vulgar ; but that I call custom of speech , which is the consent of the learned ; as custom of life , which is the consent of the good . " 1 66 " 6 The dictum of Horace , indeed , has hardly been called in ...
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Side 19 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you...
Side 186 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not ' seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Side 259 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Side 244 - ... impelled to create them where he does not find them. To these qualities he has added a disposition to be affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present...
Side 185 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Side 152 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Side 349 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Side 228 - The first is, that neither the discipline nor the subject-matter of classical education is of such direct value to the student of physical science as to justify the expenditure of valuable time upon either; and the second is, that for the purpose of attaining real culture, an exclusively scientific education is at least as effectual as an exclusively literary education.
Side 371 - ... and of the resolved arbitration of the destinies, that conclude into precision of doom what we feebly and blindly began; and force us, when our indiscretion serves us, and our deepest plots do pall, to the confession, that "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Side 239 - Why should it be one thing, in its effect upon the emotions, to say, 'Patience is a virtue,' and quite another thing, in its effect upon the emotions, to say with Homer, 'for an enduring heart have the destinies appointed to the children of men'?