American Prose: SelectionsMacmillan, 1898 - Počet stran: 465 |
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Strana ix
... Style in Writing A Village Festival Personal Aims Sounds at Evening Solitude . Immortality JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Yankee Character • Cambridge Thirty Years Ago Keats's Poetry WALT WHITMAN • LEWIS EDWARDS GATES 268 276 278 . 284 · 295 ...
... Style in Writing A Village Festival Personal Aims Sounds at Evening Solitude . Immortality JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Yankee Character • Cambridge Thirty Years Ago Keats's Poetry WALT WHITMAN • LEWIS EDWARDS GATES 268 276 278 . 284 · 295 ...
Strana xiv
... style , until then , was unformed , obscure , whimsical , ponderous . Prose had had its great triumphs , but they were sepa- rate , accidental , — isolated , in large measure , from the course of development . It was Dryden , Defoe ...
... style , until then , was unformed , obscure , whimsical , ponderous . Prose had had its great triumphs , but they were sepa- rate , accidental , — isolated , in large measure , from the course of development . It was Dryden , Defoe ...
Strana xvi
... style , a tendency that is , to treat words as mere in- struments , diverting them , if occasion requires , to unaccustomed but valid uses , playing easily , as it were , with the ordinary forms of speech , as if we were so sure of the ...
... style , a tendency that is , to treat words as mere in- struments , diverting them , if occasion requires , to unaccustomed but valid uses , playing easily , as it were , with the ordinary forms of speech , as if we were so sure of the ...
Strana xvii
... style have been much less affected by the romantic move- ment than in England . Indeed , with very few exceptions , our literature is purely pre - romantic , purely eighteenth century in its simplicity and dignity , in its appeal to the ...
... style have been much less affected by the romantic move- ment than in England . Indeed , with very few exceptions , our literature is purely pre - romantic , purely eighteenth century in its simplicity and dignity , in its appeal to the ...
Strana xviii
... style that are then , and then only , appropriate . In prose literature , fortunately , substance is more than style , and American literature , so weak in its appeal to the reader on the lookout for " word effects " alone , is strong ...
... style that are then , and then only , appropriate . In prose literature , fortunately , substance is more than style , and American literature , so weak in its appeal to the reader on the lookout for " word effects " alone , is strong ...
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Strana 80 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 194 - The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Strana 261 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.
Strana 106 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Strana 36 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Strana 39 - And again, Three removes are as bad as a fire ; and again, Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ; and again, If you would have your business done, go ; if not, send. And again — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Strana 113 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...
Strana 133 - He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor — the mountain ravine — the wild retreat among the rocks — the woe-begone party at nine-pins — the flagon — " Oh ! that flagon ! that wicked flagon ! " thought Rip — " what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle?
Strana 39 - A little neglect may breed great mischief ; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Strana 82 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...