Question

Find a paragraph that you think is emphatic or well-written. Type or copy and paste the paragraph into your post. Include information about the source's author, title, and publication/URL.

What makes it emphatic? How does it effectively use subjects and verbs? How does it effectively arrange old and new information? How does it use coordination or subordination effectively to convey the relationships between ideas?

Answer 1

"It is now six and thirty years since I took my seat at the desk in Mincing-lane. Melancholy was the transition at fourteen from the abundant play-time, and the frequently-intervening vacations of school days, to the eight, nine, and sometimes ten hours' a-day attendance at a counting-house. But time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content -- doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

Source: The Superannuated Man, by Charles Lamb.

The passage clearly shows the role of retirement and how most of the people enjoy. He says that at the age of the expiry of the service life one is retired. He mentions that every retired person should accept it gladly. He takes it as a different ways and the way appears to be different from others.

Here the main issue is superannuation and the author shows that superannuation is an absolute matter in life.