The English Journal, Volume 17University of Chicago Press, 1928 - English language |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 9
... play of mind for its own sake , lit- tle amiable and graceful trifling of the kind inherited by English writers from Charles Lamb . . . . . I may as well record that one man at least , while read- ing his way through the non - fictional ...
... play of mind for its own sake , lit- tle amiable and graceful trifling of the kind inherited by English writers from Charles Lamb . . . . . I may as well record that one man at least , while read- ing his way through the non - fictional ...
Page 14
... play . John Burroughs and William Beebe are in the tradition of Walden . On his own level I find Walter Pritchard Eaton's nature essay maintaining the amateur tradition in which the English - speaking world has been so rich . In the es ...
... play . John Burroughs and William Beebe are in the tradition of Walden . On his own level I find Walter Pritchard Eaton's nature essay maintaining the amateur tradition in which the English - speaking world has been so rich . In the es ...
Page 51
... play word games and letter games and grammar games . Here sometimes they should give debates and make oral reports . Here they should even learn rules . But most important of all , here they should write . They should learn the joy of ...
... play word games and letter games and grammar games . Here sometimes they should give debates and make oral reports . Here they should even learn rules . But most important of all , here they should write . They should learn the joy of ...
Page 76
... play the game more intelligently if they know the rules under which it is played . It 76 THE ENGLISH JOURNAL.
... play the game more intelligently if they know the rules under which it is played . It 76 THE ENGLISH JOURNAL.
Page 77
... Plays ( Clarance Stratton , director of English , Cleveland , chairman ) proposed to publish during the year a list of recent plays to supplement the present Plays for High Schools and THE 1927 COUNCIL 77.
... Plays ( Clarance Stratton , director of English , Cleveland , chairman ) proposed to publish during the year a list of recent plays to supplement the present Plays for High Schools and THE 1927 COUNCIL 77.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ability American assignment beauty biography cent CHIG classroom committee composition course criticism Dalton plan discussion drama dream E. P. Dutton Edited Education English Journal English language English literature English teachers essay experience fact fiction Freshman girls give grade grammar H. L. Mencken Hugh Walpole Illinois instructor interest Jilson junior high school Katherine Mansfield language letters lish literary living magazines Mark Van Doren material method Middle English mind misspelled modern newspaper novel oral paper play poem poet poetry present problem Professor pronunciation prose pupils questions reader Review Sandburg selected semester sentence Shakespeare Silas Marner SITY speech spelling story Teachers of English teaching theater themes things thought tion UNIV University of Chicago Upton Sinclair Wallace Rice words writing written York
Popular passages
Page 404 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 406 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 398 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, io which is only truth seen from another side?
Page 114 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
Page 409 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 403 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold...
Page 401 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 112 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 406 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle multiform, and mix And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 406 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?