The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1896 - 337 sayfa |
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Sayfa 6
... preferred to agri- culturalist . See CONVERSATIONALIST . Ain't . This can not be called a contraction , and how- ever much it may be employed it will still be only a vul- garism . I'm not is the only possible contraction of I am not ...
... preferred to agri- culturalist . See CONVERSATIONALIST . Ain't . This can not be called a contraction , and how- ever much it may be employed it will still be only a vul- garism . I'm not is the only possible contraction of I am not ...
Sayfa 13
... preferred . " What do you know of his history ? " is far better English than " What do you know of his anteced- ents ? " The one is the language of the drawing - room , the other of the bar - room . Anticipate . Lovers of big words ...
... preferred . " What do you know of his history ? " is far better English than " What do you know of his anteced- ents ? " The one is the language of the drawing - room , the other of the bar - room . Anticipate . Lovers of big words ...
Sayfa 21
... preferred to are you not or are they not . Unlike " we're , " " you're , " " I'm , " " I'll , " " they'll , " " he'll , " etc. , which are all contractions of the verb only , aren't can hardly be considered good colloquial usage ...
... preferred to are you not or are they not . Unlike " we're , " " you're , " " I'm , " " I'll , " " they'll , " " he'll , " etc. , which are all contractions of the verb only , aren't can hardly be considered good colloquial usage ...
Sayfa 23
... preferred to as though . The very nature of such statements declares their need of a copulative in the connecting word ; the disjunctive is always an enemy to their meaning . " -- Anne Balderston . At . " They do things differently in ...
... preferred to as though . The very nature of such statements declares their need of a copulative in the connecting word ; the disjunctive is always an enemy to their meaning . " -- Anne Balderston . At . " They do things differently in ...
Sayfa 37
... preferred . See WHAT . Bulk . Though sanctioned by the dictionaries , the use of this word in the sense of the main mass , the majority , the greater part , is not considered by careful writers as being good diction . " There was a ...
... preferred . See WHAT . Bulk . Though sanctioned by the dictionaries , the use of this word in the sense of the main mass , the majority , the greater part , is not considered by careful writers as being good diction . " There was a ...
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adjective adverb American appears authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common correct diction Dictionary doubt ellipsis employed England English English language erly error euphonious example expression following sentence frequently gentleman give grammar grammarians Grant White hear heard idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended kind lady language Latin less locution look matter means Metonymy mind mood N. Y. Sun never nice noun object old English one's opinion participle passive persons phrase plural preposition present pronoun proper word qualify rarely reference reflexive pronouns relative relative pronouns rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown say properly seen sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism Webster's Dictionary woman word is sometimes York
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Sayfa 232 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Sayfa 17 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Sayfa 270 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Sayfa 208 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Sayfa 266 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Sayfa 269 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Sayfa 235 - ... and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain ? O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! \Exit.
Sayfa 180 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Sayfa 271 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Sayfa 247 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...