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... readers , what we write must not only be our own but seem so ; and therefore we must make not only our subject but also our words our own . Following are two examples of sincere and great writing . Each writer means what he says , and ...
... readers , what we write must not only be our own but seem so ; and therefore we must make not only our subject but also our words our own . Following are two examples of sincere and great writing . Each writer means what he says , and ...
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... reader can in a moment tell where the writer lives , when he wrote , to whom , and , finally , who he is . A good business man wants to give all the time necessary to a piece of work , but no more . With him time is money . Consequently ...
... reader can in a moment tell where the writer lives , when he wrote , to whom , and , finally , who he is . A good business man wants to give all the time necessary to a piece of work , but no more . With him time is money . Consequently ...
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... readers shall see pretty nearly the same thing here - so important , indeed , that , besides this careful word - picture , the author has given a map of the island . You have noticed that the description is definite in four ways : first ...
... readers shall see pretty nearly the same thing here - so important , indeed , that , besides this careful word - picture , the author has given a map of the island . You have noticed that the description is definite in four ways : first ...
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... readers a better notion of him than so condensed an account of his life . It is well to remem- ber , too , that a page of your writing is not nearly equal to a page of print ; compare , for instance , your copy of the dictation exercise ...
... readers a better notion of him than so condensed an account of his life . It is well to remem- ber , too , that a page of your writing is not nearly equal to a page of print ; compare , for instance , your copy of the dictation exercise ...
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... reader . All of us like to read stories in which the writer gives specific , definite little acts and looks of the characters , and tells exactly how to picture the scene . All of us like to receive letters that definitely tell the ...
... reader . All of us like to read stories in which the writer gives specific , definite little acts and looks of the characters , and tells exactly how to picture the scene . All of us like to receive letters that definitely tell the ...
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Page 74 - Tirra lirra,' by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro...
Page 23 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 230 - These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung!
Page 120 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 76 - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed...
Page 132 - Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below, So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow !
Page 232 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues! Sirs, they know I speak the truth! Sirs, believe me there's a way! Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable...
Page 19 - Seaweed WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda's reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador...
Page 172 - Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Page 118 - And the poplars tall ; And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, And the white horns tossing above the wall.