The King's English Abridged for School UseClarendon Press, 1908 - 160 pages |
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The King's English Abridged for School Use Henry Watson Fowler,Francis George Fowler Affichage du livre entier - 1924 |
The King's English Abridged for School Use Henry Watson Fowler,Francis George Fowler Affichage du livre entier - 1918 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
accentuation adjective adverbs ambiguity archaism authority avoid Balfour believe BENSON better blunder BRONTË Charles of Burgundy commas common confusion conjunction construction context correct course cui bono curate's egg defining desirable doubt E. F. BENSON Edmund Barton elegant variation English esprit d'escalier essential exception expression fact FERRIER following examples French German gerund give grammar GREEN hand idiom illustrate implies impossible infinitive inserted instance interest kind language Latin less literary live Lord LORD ROSEBERY malaprop matter means metaphor mind modern mutual nature negative never non-defining noun object observed omitted one's Paradise Lost participle perhaps person phrase plain possible preposition present probably pronoun pure clause qualities question quoted reader relative clause rule Saxon seems sense slang sometimes sure thing tion true ugly unique usage usually Vanity Fair verb wish words writer wrong
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Page 49 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Page 110 - Jove," says little Osborne, with the air of a connoisseur, clapping his man on the back. " Give it him with the left, Figs my boy." Figs's left made terrific play during all the rest of the combat. Cuff went down every time. At the sixth round, there were almost as many fellows shouting out, " Go it, Figs," as there were youths exclaiming,
Page 123 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 139 - He was undoubtedly one of the most popular men of his time; and much of his popularity he owed, we believe, to that very timidity which his friends lamented.
Page 54 - The sketch promised well ; and I set to work to finish it, determined to spare no time nor pains. My father was willing to sit as long as I pleased ; for there is a natural desire in the mind of man to sit for one's picture, to be the object of continued attention, to have one's likeness multiplied ; and besides his satisfaction in the picture, he had some pride in the artist, though he would rather I should have written a sermon than painted like Rembrandt or like Raphael.
Page 101 - I would not be hurried by any love of system, by any exaggeration of instincts, to underrate the Book. We all know that as the human body can be nourished on any food, though it were boiled grass and the broth of shoes, so the human mind can be fed by any knowledge. And great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
Page 50 - ... to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions. But a situation near enough to enable me to see, as well as others, what was going on ; and I did see in that noble person such sound principles, such an enlargement of mind, such clear and sagacious sense, and such unshaken fortitude, as have bound me, as well as others much better than me, by an inviolable attachment to him from that time forward.
Page 55 - As we approach more closely, many things grow clearer. In the man's own sphere there is consistency; the farther we advance into it, we see confusion more and more unfold itself into order, till at last, viewed from its proper centre, his intellectual universe, no longer a distorted incoherent series of air-landscapes, coalesces into compact expansion...
Page 127 - ... go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!
Page 145 - Men like Sir G. Lewis have seldom been lost ', but ' Men like the late Sir G. Lewis have seldom been found'. But instead of the late a word was required that should express proper concern ; lost is a short cut to ' men so unique as he whose loss we now deplore '. There are but few men whose lives abound in such wild and romantic adventure, and, for the most part, crowned with success. — PRESCOTT. The writer does not mean ' adventures so wild, so romantic, and so successful in the main ' ; that...