Specimens of Prose CompositionCharles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough Ginn, 1907 - 478 oldal |
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xxii. oldal
... rest of the article is a sympa- thetic treatment of the mental point of view . Stevenson realizes that to see the Water of Leith as he saw it when a boy , he must put himself into the boy's frame of mind , when " the trees on the steep ...
... rest of the article is a sympa- thetic treatment of the mental point of view . Stevenson realizes that to see the Water of Leith as he saw it when a boy , he must put himself into the boy's frame of mind , when " the trees on the steep ...
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... rest and animal heat without them . The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast ; - all 15 clashing of opinion , or collision of feeling , all ...
... rest and animal heat without them . The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast ; - all 15 clashing of opinion , or collision of feeling , all ...
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... Accuracy and dash , then , the combi- 30 nation of the two , must be our difficult aim ; and we must not rest satisfied so long as either dwells with us alone . But are the two so hostile as they at first SELF - CULTIVATION IN ENGLISH 27.
... Accuracy and dash , then , the combi- 30 nation of the two , must be our difficult aim ; and we must not rest satisfied so long as either dwells with us alone . But are the two so hostile as they at first SELF - CULTIVATION IN ENGLISH 27.
39. oldal
... rest of the world even the world of America , and infinitely more the world of Europe in dress , in customs , and in mode of life . ― Where their lands abutted on the more settled districts 20 to the eastward , the population was of ...
... rest of the world even the world of America , and infinitely more the world of Europe in dress , in customs , and in mode of life . ― Where their lands abutted on the more settled districts 20 to the eastward , the population was of ...
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... rest of the city is 30 commonplace is delicious , suggesting old France and Spain , yet a France and Spain strangely transmuted in this new clime . I have seen nothing in America more picturesque than the Rue Royale , with its houses of ...
... rest of the city is 30 commonplace is delicious , suggesting old France and Spain , yet a France and Spain strangely transmuted in this new clime . I have seen nothing in America more picturesque than the Rue Royale , with its houses of ...
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Allen Chamberlain American argument B. E. Fernow balance of trade Boston called character collect color danger dark debts desirable England Europe European eyes February 16 feet fire foreign forest reserve Forestry and Irrigation forests would yield Franconia Range G. P. Putnam's Sons green ground half Hampshire Forestry Commission hand hundred immigration industry interest international alliance island J. B. Harrison John Bassett Moore labor land light Little Tapin living look lumber companies ment Miscellanies Monroe Doctrine NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE national reserve natural never night occupation of custom-houses party Piggy point of view polype present reefs river ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON RUDYARD KIPLING San Domingo seemed side Stevenson stood thing THOMAS CARLYLE tion to-day treaty trees union United wall White Mountain region White Mountains whole wind woods words writing young
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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.