A Study of the ParagraphAmerican Book Company, 1912 - 125 páginas |
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ages of prosperity artist author's own Subject Autobiography autumnal day became a calling Beggar's Opera BENJAMIN FRANKLIN called the Subject Catskill Mountains character clear complete development consider definite English Essay on Johnson Exercise expression fact following Paragraphs foundation Geometry Proposition GEORGE ELIOT golden ears graph ILLUSTRATIVE PARAGRAPH Imitation Period Johnson took Katrina Van Tassel Legend of Sleepy less gainful calling listless repose literature became look MACAULAY Macaulay's Macbeth manner means ment mind mode of teaching model Paragraph nature neighboring Never since literature noble perfect Paragraph phatic prove the Subject pupils rational conviction reason remember Rip Van Winkle Second sentence seemed selected sentence in Proof sentence in second Silas Marner Sketch Book Sleepy Hollow sometimes glad Spectator statement step style Subject Sentence Summary Sentence teacher tence theme thing thought tion Tory trees WASHINGTON IRVING whole composition writing written
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Página 37 - ... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Página 71 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country.
Página 116 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality.
Página 84 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 24 - ... screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove. As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn.
Página 40 - Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence!
Página 37 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Página 19 - In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains. He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his gun.
Página 23 - It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day, the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory...
Página 41 - ... greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain, yet there was something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown that inspired awe and checked familiarity.