The Biglow Papers, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1867 - 175 Seiten |
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... mind in print , and , on the other , I feared the risk of seeming to vulgarize a deep and sacred convic- tion . I needed on occasion to rise above the level of mere patois , and for this purpose conceived the Reverend Mr. Wilbur , who ...
... mind in print , and , on the other , I feared the risk of seeming to vulgarize a deep and sacred convic- tion . I needed on occasion to rise above the level of mere patois , and for this purpose conceived the Reverend Mr. Wilbur , who ...
Seite xi
... minds and memories of his victims to what he esteems the best models of English composition , that is to say , to the writers whose style is faultily correct and has no blood - warmth in it . No language after it has faded into diction ...
... minds and memories of his victims to what he esteems the best models of English composition , that is to say , to the writers whose style is faultily correct and has no blood - warmth in it . No language after it has faded into diction ...
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... mind which is behind the meaning of the words . It has sometimes seemed to me that in England there was a growing tendency to curtail language into a mere convenience , and to defecate it of all emotion as thoroughly as algebraic signs ...
... mind which is behind the meaning of the words . It has sometimes seemed to me that in England there was a growing tendency to curtail language into a mere convenience , and to defecate it of all emotion as thoroughly as algebraic signs ...
Seite xxx
... minds with combines ; Marston , trust and obse- quious , clothes and shows ; Dryden gives the same sound to clothes , and has also minds with designs . Of course , I do not affirm that their ears may not have told them that these were ...
... minds with combines ; Marston , trust and obse- quious , clothes and shows ; Dryden gives the same sound to clothes , and has also minds with designs . Of course , I do not affirm that their ears may not have told them that these were ...
Seite xli
... mind . I will illustrate the word a little further , because Pickering cites no English authorities . Skelton has a pass- age in his " Phyllyp Sparowe , " which I quote the rather as it contains also the word allowed , and as it ...
... mind . I will illustrate the word a little further , because Pickering cites no English authorities . Skelton has a pass- age in his " Phyllyp Sparowe , " which I quote the rather as it contains also the word allowed , and as it ...
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