Selected English EssaysWilliam Peacock |
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Page 274
... write without affectation is to write at random . On the contrary , there is nothing that requires more precision , and , if I may so say , purity of expression , than the style I am speaking of . It utterly rejects not only all ...
... write without affectation is to write at random . On the contrary , there is nothing that requires more precision , and , if I may so say , purity of expression , than the style I am speaking of . It utterly rejects not only all ...
Page 275
... write naturally is the same thing in regard to common con- versation as to read naturally is in regard to common ... write about . Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence , or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts ; but ...
... write naturally is the same thing in regard to common con- versation as to read naturally is in regard to common ... write about . Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence , or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts ; but ...
Page 527
... write down that mystery and delicious sense while actually in it , I have brought out table and ink and paper , and ... write what I felt about the sunlight only . Colour and form and light are as magic to me . It is a trance . It ...
... write down that mystery and delicious sense while actually in it , I have brought out table and ink and paper , and ... write what I felt about the sunlight only . Colour and form and light are as magic to me . It is a trance . It ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |