Books by "Henry Arthur Smith"
9 books found
An "unfliching and often unflattering view of James Dickey's life."--Carolinian.
guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple.
George Steele (ca. 1740-1802) and his wife, Margaret Doleman, had seven children. The family lived in Hopewell Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, on an island in the Janiata river. He died and was buried on the island. Descendants listed lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and elsewhere.
Samuel Steele (1616-1685) immigrated from England to Farmington, Connecticut and married Mary Boosey. Steel Smith (1729/1730-1812), direct descendant in the fourth generation, moved from Farmington to become the first settler in Windsor, Vermont in 1764. Descendants lived in New England, Washington, D.C., Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, California and elsewhere.