Word: readers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...making the most heroic efforts to overcome the poison of her passion. Before we finish the play she has not only succeeded in interesting us, but she has won our pity and sympathy; nothing could be a greater tribute to the genius of Racine than this acknowledgment which every reader of the play must make...
...literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay can say that...
Realizing perfectly that the impulse of the reader who comes upon the words "loyal support of the eleven" is to toss his paper aside with some such remark as "the same old drool," we nevertheless once more venture a few words on the subject...
...countries. Now, there is at the present time a pressing need and call for a complete bibliography of Civil Service literature, and if the scattered references could be collected, they would prove of great service. No better place could be found than Harvard for this work, and if each reader who comes across a page or paragraph devoted to the Civil Service would but send the reference to me, it would become a valuable part of a Civil Service Index. To aid those who would like to lend a hand in the work I add an example...
...your hare) to catch your thought or feeling as the case may be, perhaps I ought rather to say be caught by it. Let that be honest, manly and sincere. Then the problem is, like that of the girl with the water jar, to bring it home to your reader without spilling over. Now the study of literature is in great measure a study of style, and this if followed on true principles will react upon the character-will make us less tolerant of extravagance of mind, of loose statment, of inaccurate thought and of that faulty expression which...