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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... importance of attention to the subject of composition thus much may be said ; that there are few individuals , in any station of life , to whom ease and fluency in writing are not valuable acquisitions . All who are engaged in ...
... importance of attention to the subject of composition thus much may be said ; that there are few individuals , in any station of life , to whom ease and fluency in writing are not valuable acquisitions . All who are engaged in ...
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... important improvements in the plan , the ar- rangement , and the materials , by which he thinks its value as an Aid to Composition is greatly enhanced . The subject of Descrip- tion in particular has been considerably extended and ...
... important improvements in the plan , the ar- rangement , and the materials , by which he thinks its value as an Aid to Composition is greatly enhanced . The subject of Descrip- tion in particular has been considerably extended and ...
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... important that every writer be careful to use the proper word to express the idea which he wishes to communicate ; and when he is required to use a word , that he endeavor thereby to express no other idea than that , which the word is ...
... important that every writer be careful to use the proper word to express the idea which he wishes to communicate ; and when he is required to use a word , that he endeavor thereby to express no other idea than that , which the word is ...
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... important purposes . Have a tendency to preserve . Withdraws his propitious light . However base or unworthy . Is the emblem of . How boundless . The tender assiduities of friendship . Irregular projecting rocks . Was peculiarly dear ...
... important purposes . Have a tendency to preserve . Withdraws his propitious light . However base or unworthy . Is the emblem of . How boundless . The tender assiduities of friendship . Irregular projecting rocks . Was peculiarly dear ...
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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.