 | John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 pages
...small difficulty, to our journey's end." Contrast this with what is called the loose arrangement : " We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather."* Here the sense would be complete, and the sentence might end, at any one of the five points indicated... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1874 - 420 pages
...be doubted whether a single instance could be given of this species of composition, in any language. We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads nnd bad weather. Virgil has justly contested with Homer the praise of judgment; but his invention remains... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1874 - 412 pages
...reconstructing loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Example.—Take the following: We came to our journey's end, | at last, | with no small difficulty, | after much fatigue, 1 through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there being no less than five... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1874 - 180 pages
...complete. " At last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather, we came to our journey's end." " At last, with no small difficulty, and after much fatigue, we came, through deep roads and bad weather, to our journey's end." EXERCISE... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - Preaching - 1876 - 530 pages
...small difficulty, to our journey's end." Contrast this with what is called the loose arrangement : " We came to our journey's end at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather." f Here the sense would be complete, and the sentence might end, at any one of the five points indicated... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1877 - 142 pages
...addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited. 2. We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. The wonderful invention of Homer is what principally strikes us, on whatever side we contemplate... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1877 - 392 pages
...reconstructing loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Examplo. — Take the following : We came to our journey's end, | at last, | with no small difficulty, J after much fatigue, | through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1878 - 260 pages
...might be terminated with strict grammatical accuracy.' Those places he indicates by dashes ( — ). We came to our journey's end — at last — with...much fatigue — through deep roads and bad weather. Now the above sentence, loose as it is, may be read so as to appear compact and almost unbroken. Lave... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1878 - 394 pages
...addressed on momentous oecasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited. 2. \Ve came to our journey's end, at last, with no small...much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather. 3. The wonderful invention of Homer is what principally strikes us, on whatever side we contemplate... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1878 - 396 pages
...loose sentences so as to give them a periodic character. Example.—Take the following: TVe came to onr journey's end, | at last, | with no small difficulty,...fatigue, [ through deep roads, | and bad weather. This is a very loose sentence, there being no less than fire different places, at any one of which... | |
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We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather. 
