Word: forme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chief value of Professor Hill's Elements of Rhetoric lies in its practical nature. Designed for use as a text-book, it omits theoretical speculations, gives particular rules rather than vague generalizations, and puts everything in a form that can be readily grasped and easily remembered. An abundance of examples and passages from modern authors illustrate each statement, and numerous references on each page make it possible for the student, if he wishes, to pursue the subject beyond the limits of the book. We wish, however, that the book had a fuller index, so that it might be used...
...your correspondent is apparently among the number) suppose it to belong to the genus croquet. Whoever wishes to remove this impression has only to try a game on the next hot day, and see whether he does not get as much exercise as a strong, healthy man requires. Any form of outdoor exercise can be taken easily; rowing itself, if one rows slowly enough, is anything but hard work; but just as a severe pull on the river is violent exercise, so is a good game of lawn-tennis. To call a game effeminate because it can be played without...
...culture that is given by a broad course of reading, - the reviews, of course; George Sand, of a warm afternoon; Schiller, of a cool one; Macaulay, when I am fresh; Irving, when I am weary; all capped by the inevitable Nation, in deference to which I form my opinions. These, together with my visits to the art galleries and an occasional evening in a drawing-room, - barter these for 80 per cent in Greek and the approbation of Spider? I cannot afford to do so. No! Let Spider spend all his evenings with Socrates and Plato, if he will...
...Oxford crew, although lighter, is said to be much the faster, and rows in better form than the Cambridge crew, which pulls too short a stroke, feathers badly, and is quite slow...
...their name, but allows no lines of circumvallation to be drawn round its sacred citadel under the alleged authority of any record or of any organization. This is what I mean to express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured cadences over a mosaic pavement of rhymes, and which not rarely combines a minimum of thought with a maximum of labor...