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... his proofs in accordance with the best practice . He receives all needful explanations regard- ing the sizes and qualities of paper , and the varieties of type used in printing . In case he should achieve Preface . vii.
... his proofs in accordance with the best practice . He receives all needful explanations regard- ing the sizes and qualities of paper , and the varieties of type used in printing . In case he should achieve Preface . vii.
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... qualities of a good style . Perspi- cuity demands our chief care ; for , without this quality , ' the richest ornaments of language only glimmer through the dark , and puzzle , instead of pleasing , the reader . An author's meaning ...
... qualities of a good style . Perspi- cuity demands our chief care ; for , without this quality , ' the richest ornaments of language only glimmer through the dark , and puzzle , instead of pleasing , the reader . An author's meaning ...
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... qualities of purity , propriety , and precision . Of these , the first two are often confounded with each other , and indeed they are very nearly allied : a distinction however obtains between them . Purity of style consists in the use ...
... qualities of purity , propriety , and precision . Of these , the first two are often confounded with each other , and indeed they are very nearly allied : a distinction however obtains between them . Purity of style consists in the use ...
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... qualities are wanting , the language is imperfect . 40. He offered a great recompense to whomsoever would help him . 41. A few hours of intercourse is enough for forming a judgment on the case . 42. And thus the son the fervent sire ...
... qualities are wanting , the language is imperfect . 40. He offered a great recompense to whomsoever would help him . 41. A few hours of intercourse is enough for forming a judgment on the case . 42. And thus the son the fervent sire ...
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... qualities is different : and being led to think of both together when only one of them should be presented to me , I find my view rendered unsteady , and my con- ception of the hero indistinct . An author may be very intelligible ...
... qualities is different : and being led to think of both together when only one of them should be presented to me , I find my view rendered unsteady , and my con- ception of the hero indistinct . An author may be very intelligible ...
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Page 35 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Page 144 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Page 132 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 46 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?
Page 238 - ... islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Page 162 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Page 130 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Page 310 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Page 162 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.
Page 140 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.