Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & brothers, 1851 - Всего страниц: 429 |
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... head , while it perfumed the air with its delicious fragrance . At the back of the house were a num- ber of fruit trees , in full blossom , among which was the peach tree , with its beautiful pink flowers . Some boys were seen ...
... head , while it perfumed the air with its delicious fragrance . At the back of the house were a num- ber of fruit trees , in full blossom , among which was the peach tree , with its beautiful pink flowers . Some boys were seen ...
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... head , and crying pewit so distinct- ly , one might almost fancy they spoke . I thought I should have caught one of them , for he flew as if one of his wings was broken , and often tumbled close to the ground ; but , as I came near , he ...
... head , and crying pewit so distinct- ly , one might almost fancy they spoke . I thought I should have caught one of them , for he flew as if one of his wings was broken , and often tumbled close to the ground ; but , as I came near , he ...
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... head and bill , and a short tail . Tutor . I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which it catches in the manner you saw . It ...
... head and bill , and a short tail . Tutor . I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which it catches in the manner you saw . It ...
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... head , with his large flapping wings . He alighted at the next turn of the river , and I crept softly behind the bank to watch his motions . He had waded into the water as far as his long legs would carry him , and was standing with his ...
... head , with his large flapping wings . He alighted at the next turn of the river , and I crept softly behind the bank to watch his motions . He had waded into the water as far as his long legs would carry him , and was standing with his ...
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... head . Tutor . It does so ; and you may probably have observed the same apparent enlargement of the moon at its rising . William . I have ; but pray what is the reason of this ? Tutor . It is an optical deception , depending upon ...
... head . Tutor . It does so ; and you may probably have observed the same apparent enlargement of the moon at its rising . William . I have ; but pray what is the reason of this ? Tutor . It is an optical deception , depending upon ...
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accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound sentence connexion derived earth effect English English language Example 2d exercise expression father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind labor language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remark rule Saxon sense Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Стр. 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Стр. 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Стр. 294 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Стр. 293 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Стр. 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Стр. 401 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Стр. 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Стр. 146 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Стр. 293 - Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Стр. 148 - And besides this, giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; AND to virtue knowledge; AND to knowledge temperance; AND to temperance patience; AND to patience godliness; AND to godliness brotherly kindness; AND to brotherly kindness charity.