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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... sounds most harmoniously to the ear , conveys most clearly the idea intended to be expressed . Example The poet must study variety , above all things 22 33 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . XI Of the Parts and Adjuncts of a Sentence,·
... sounds most harmoniously to the ear , conveys most clearly the idea intended to be expressed . Example The poet must study variety , above all things 22 33 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . XI Of the Parts and Adjuncts of a Sentence,·
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... poet must study variety , above all things , not only in professed descriptions of the scenery , but in frequent allusions to natural objects , which , of course , often occur in pastorals . Above all things , the poet , not only in ...
... poet must study variety , above all things , not only in professed descriptions of the scenery , but in frequent allusions to natural objects , which , of course , often occur in pastorals . Above all things , the poet , not only in ...
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... poet says : " The proper study of mankind is man . " Sometimes the quotation is marked by single , instead of double , commas . The diæresis consists of two periods placed over the latter of two vow- els ; to show that they are to be ...
... poet says : " The proper study of mankind is man . " Sometimes the quotation is marked by single , instead of double , commas . The diæresis consists of two periods placed over the latter of two vow- els ; to show that they are to be ...
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... poet of antiquity is reported to have been blind . Milton the author of " Paradise Lost " and " Regained " was blind ... poets admiration . Saint Peter is painted with the keys Paul with a sword Andrew with a cross James the Greater with ...
... poet of antiquity is reported to have been blind . Milton the author of " Paradise Lost " and " Regained " was blind ... poets admiration . Saint Peter is painted with the keys Paul with a sword Andrew with a cross James the Greater with ...
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... poet especially a familiar acquaintance with expres sions of similar meaning is absolutely indispensable . Confined as he is to certain rules , it is often the case , that a long word must be substituted for a short one , or a short one ...
... poet especially a familiar acquaintance with expres sions of similar meaning is absolutely indispensable . Confined as he is to certain rules , it is often the case , that a long word must be substituted for a short one , or a short one ...
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50 cents 75 cents accent admiration Allowable rhymes amusement ancient Anthon's Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character composition connexion delight dodo effect English English language Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure genius give Greek Greek language happiness heart honor hypermeter idea imagination influence kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin nation nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical phrase pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles proper prose remark rules sense sentence Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic 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.