Outlines of the Art of ExpressionGinn brothers, 1876 - 117 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
abnormal noun act of thought adjective adjunct adverbs Anglo-Saxon Art of Expression auxiliaries called class-noun clause collective noun compared composition compound sentence conjugation conjunction construction containing continuatives dative Declarative Mood definite article Demetrius Phalereus denotes derived English Grammar English language epithets especially essay example Figurative Language five sentences containing following sentence form the plural gender gerund Gram Greek identity Illustrate the correct Imperative imperfect indefinite indicate infinitive inflection John Latin Lowth meaning ment Metonymy modified mood nature neuter verb object of thought origin passive voice past participle phrase possessive praised predicate and copula preposition present preterite principle recognized in English regarded relation relative Rushton sentences containing simple sentences introducing Shakspere Shakspere's simple future simple sentence singular student subjunctive Subjunctive Mood Synecdoche tence tenses termination thing thou three elements tion tive Transitive verbs unchanged form usage words Write five sentences Write sentences illustrating
Pasajes populares
Página 77 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página 99 - There are indeed but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.
Página 36 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
Página 69 - But this is wrong; for it is unreasonable to expect all men to be great artists, and born with the genius of Mr. Williams.
Página 36 - The word it is the greatest troubler that I know of in language. It is so small, and so convenient, that few are careful enough in using it. Writers seldom spare this word. Whenever they are at a loss for either a nominative or an objective to their sentence, they, without any kind of ceremony, clap in an it.
Página 29 - All that Lord Cobham did was at thy instigation, thou viper ! for I thou thee, thou traitor.
Página 96 - ... within us. There had been nothing like him before, there has been nothing since. He is original, not in the sense that he thinks and says what nobody ever thought and said before, and what nobody can ever think and say again, but because he is always natural, because, if not always absolutely new, he is always delightfully fresh, because he sets before us the world as it honestly appeared to Geoffrey Chaucer, and not a world as it seemed proper to certain people that it ought to appear.
Página 96 - Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is a happier state of life than a slave at the oar...
Página 99 - Tillotson [says an author of the History of England] died in this year. He was exceedingly beloved both by King William and Queen Mary, who nominated Dr. Tennison, Bishop of Lincoln, to succeed him.
Página 77 - ... into them in conversation, they carefully avoid them in writing, or even in a solemn speech on any important occasion. Their currency, therefore, is without authority and weight. The tattle of children hath a currency, but, however universal their manner of corrupting words may be among themselves, it can never establish what is accounted use in language. Now, what children are to men, that precisely the ignorant are to the knowing.