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Page 44
A short definition will not be out of place here . The main distinction between
prose and poetry is that the business of prose is to impart fresh knowledge , of
poetry to illuminate , to kindle , to suggest , and to touch the heart and feelings .
This is ...
A short definition will not be out of place here . The main distinction between
prose and poetry is that the business of prose is to impart fresh knowledge , of
poetry to illuminate , to kindle , to suggest , and to touch the heart and feelings .
This is ...
Page 55
Easy reading must therefore have short sentences . They must not pass on into
complex constructions . There must be no attempt to represent graduation of idea
. A new sentence must be made for every part of an idea , as well as for the main
...
Easy reading must therefore have short sentences . They must not pass on into
complex constructions . There must be no attempt to represent graduation of idea
. A new sentence must be made for every part of an idea , as well as for the main
...
Page 56
Each short sentence , arranged generally in grammatical order , falls like a little
hammer , and the mind receives with pleasure and without exertion the strokes of
the enchanter , just like the plash of a fountain on a hot day . This succession of ...
Each short sentence , arranged generally in grammatical order , falls like a little
hammer , and the mind receives with pleasure and without exertion the strokes of
the enchanter , just like the plash of a fountain on a hot day . This succession of ...
Page 62
A true knowledge of how to work is the only royal road and short cut which saves
time and labour . Mere rote - work , and the speech of the uneducated man is this
, is soon at fault , where a little knowledge makes a man at ease . Any one who ...
A true knowledge of how to work is the only royal road and short cut which saves
time and labour . Mere rote - work , and the speech of the uneducated man is this
, is soon at fault , where a little knowledge makes a man at ease . Any one who ...
Page 64
Short sentences therefore are clear and emphatic , fitted to make an impression
in parts , and admirably adapted for lectures or lecture - writing , and also for an
occasional concentration of the mind on striking and telling incidents ; as , ' Ridge
...
Short sentences therefore are clear and emphatic , fitted to make an impression
in parts , and admirably adapted for lectures or lecture - writing , and also for an
occasional concentration of the mind on striking and telling incidents ; as , ' Ridge
...
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Page 102 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 219 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 124 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 124 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 218 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 114 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 113 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 114 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Page 208 - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape grow Familiar to the stranger's child; As year by year the laborer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Exercises in Grammatical Analysis Clarendon press series |
| Author | Edward Thring |
| Publisher | Claredon Press, 1868 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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