Specimens of Prose CompositionCharles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough Ginn, 1907 - 478 oldal |
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xvii. oldal
... England , " I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living . " The loquacious Miss Bates serves again as an example of digression ...
... England , " I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living . " The loquacious Miss Bates serves again as an example of digression ...
5. oldal
... England ; and of some countries in which the people are not free , as , for example , Russia . It is desirable , therefore , that we should here at the start make sure what we mean by " government , ” in order that we may have a clear ...
... England ; and of some countries in which the people are not free , as , for example , Russia . It is desirable , therefore , that we should here at the start make sure what we mean by " government , ” in order that we may have a clear ...
6. oldal
... England of the twelfth century ; or a 25 parliament led by a responsible ministry , as in the Eng- land of to - day ; or a president and two houses of congress , as in the United States ; or a board of selectmen , as in a New England ...
... England of the twelfth century ; or a 25 parliament led by a responsible ministry , as in the Eng- land of to - day ; or a president and two houses of congress , as in the United States ; or a board of selectmen , as in a New England ...
8. oldal
... England were both called " kingdoms " ; but so far as . kingly power was concerned , Louis XV . was a very dif ... England that could do that was the House of Commons , and accordingly it is correct to say that in England , at the time ...
... England were both called " kingdoms " ; but so far as . kingly power was concerned , Louis XV . was a very dif ... England that could do that was the House of Commons , and accordingly it is correct to say that in England , at the time ...
45. oldal
... England also . Compare English cities with Italian cities , and most of the former seem like one another , incapable of being , so to speak , individualized as you individualize a man with a definite character and aspect unlike that of ...
... England also . Compare English cities with Italian cities , and most of the former seem like one another , incapable of being , so to speak , individualized as you individualize a man with a definite character and aspect unlike that of ...
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389. oldal - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
312. oldal - During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
312. oldal - I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain, upon the bleak walls, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees, with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium, the bitter lapse into every-day life, the hideous dropping off of the veil.
23. oldal - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
313. oldal - ... among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate, its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling...
312. oldal - DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
313. oldal - It was a mystery all insoluble ; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.
278. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
14. oldal - He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd ; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.
279. oldal - There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs.