Expository WritingHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 312 sidor |
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... seem to be divorced from all excitement . But in most ex- position when emotional appeal is overlooked the writing suffers . In an account of the American Civil War , for example , the writer might set out to show that the conflict was ...
... seem to be divorced from all excitement . But in most ex- position when emotional appeal is overlooked the writing suffers . In an account of the American Civil War , for example , the writer might set out to show that the conflict was ...
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... seems to be required for using the controlling purpose may appear too much for practical purposes in one short lifetime . The truth is that the actual finding of the purpose will require much less time , often , than the explanation of ...
... seems to be required for using the controlling purpose may appear too much for practical purposes in one short lifetime . The truth is that the actual finding of the purpose will require much less time , often , than the explanation of ...
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... seem both frequent and natural , Huxley showed first how we reason practically about the nature of apples in a basket at the grocer's . The reader's resist- ance is thus avoided and the writer's advantage is in- creased . A shrewd ...
... seem both frequent and natural , Huxley showed first how we reason practically about the nature of apples in a basket at the grocer's . The reader's resist- ance is thus avoided and the writer's advantage is in- creased . A shrewd ...
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... seem to be at first flying away from the purpose which we later discover . Thus Mr. Taft , in an article entitled " Present Relations of the Learned Profes- sions to Political Government , " places the ministry at the beginning and the ...
... seem to be at first flying away from the purpose which we later discover . Thus Mr. Taft , in an article entitled " Present Relations of the Learned Profes- sions to Political Government , " places the ministry at the beginning and the ...
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... seems loath to leave so much honey behind and it marks the place well . It mounts aloft in a rapidly increasing spiral , surveying the near and minute objects first , then the larger and more distant , till having circled about the spot ...
... seems loath to leave so much honey behind and it marks the place well . It mounts aloft in a rapidly increasing spiral , surveying the near and minute objects first , then the larger and more distant , till having circled about the spot ...
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Sida 233 - And thousand other throng to me ! Royal flames; Sweet water's dimpling laugh from tap or spring; Holes in the ground; and voices that do sing; Voices in laughter, too; and body's pain, Soon turned to peace; and the deep-panting train; Firm sands; the little dulling edge of foam That browns and dwindles as the wave goes home...
Sida 148 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.
Sida 232 - ... them under the moon ; Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon Smooth away trouble ; and the rough male kiss Of blankets; grainy wood; live hair that is Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen Unpassioned beauty of a great machine; The benison of hot water; furs to touch; The good smell of old clothes ; and other such — The comfortable smell of friendly fingers, Hair's fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers About dead leaves and last year's ferns.
Sida 282 - ... and humble, young and old, the captains in the tents, or the soldiers round the fire, or the women and children in the villages, at whose porches he stops and sings his simple songs of love and beauty. With that sweet story of The Vicar of Wakefield he has found entry into every castle and every hamlet in Europe.
Sida 281 - In those charming lines of Beranger one may fancy described the career, the sufferings, the 'genius, the gentle nature of Goldsmith, and the esteem in which we hold him. Who, of the millions whom he has amused, doesn't love him? To be the most beloved of English writers, what a title that is for a man...
Sida 287 - The insults to which he had to submit are shocking to read of — slander, contumely, vulgar satire, brutal malignity perverting his commonest motives and actions : he had his share of these, and one's anger is roused at reading of them, as it is at seeing a woman insulted or a child assaulted, at the notion that a creature so very gentle and weak, and full of love, should have had to suffer so.
Sida 56 - Roman senator; in ships at sea, a man inured to hardship and vile pleasures, his brightest hope a fiddle in a tavern and a bedizened trull who sells herself to rob him, and he for all that simple, innocent, cheerful, kindly like a child, constant to toil, brave to drown, for others; in the slums of cities, moving among indifferent millions to mechanical employments, without hope of change in the future, with scarce a pleasure in the present, and yet true to his virtues, honest up to his lights, kind...
Sida 289 - At length a generous friend appeared to extricate me from jeopardy, and that generous friend was no other than the man I had so wantonly molested by assault and battery — it was the tenderhearted Doctor himself...
Sida 285 - Impelled, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Sida 55 - To touch the heart of his mystery, we find in him one thought, strange to the point of lunacy; the thought of duty; the thought of something owing to himself, to his neighbor, to his God: an ideal of decency, to which he would rise if it were possible; a limit of shame, below which, if it be possible, he will not stoop.