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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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . The object of this lesson is to make the student acquainted with the constituent parts and members of sentences , both simple and compound . The exercises that are subjoined , AIDS TO ENGLISH ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . The object of this lesson is to make the student acquainted with the constituent parts and members of sentences , both simple and compound . The exercises that are subjoined , AIDS TO ENGLISH ...
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... truth , that the Creation is a Perpetual feast To the mind of a Good man . diligence , industry , and Proper improvement Of time , Are Material duties of the Young ; but the young Often Neglect These duties . how often shall my brother ...
... truth , that the Creation is a Perpetual feast To the mind of a Good man . diligence , industry , and Proper improvement Of time , Are Material duties of the Young ; but the young Often Neglect These duties . how often shall my brother ...
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... truth is a plain and it is a safe path that of falsehood is a perplexing maze . Do not flatter yourself with the idea of enjoying perfect happiness for there is no such thing in the world . Were all books reduced to their quintessence ...
... truth is a plain and it is a safe path that of falsehood is a perplexing maze . Do not flatter yourself with the idea of enjoying perfect happiness for there is no such thing in the world . Were all books reduced to their quintessence ...
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... truth is , that no better reason can be given for the use or omission of the hyphen , than caprice . † The student who wishes to study this department of etymology , will find it more fully displayed in Horne Tooke's " Diversions of ...
... truth is , that no better reason can be given for the use or omission of the hyphen , than caprice . † The student who wishes to study this department of etymology , will find it more fully displayed in Horne Tooke's " Diversions of ...
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... truth . Let the first fruits of your intellect be laid before the altar of Him who breathed into your nostrils the breath of life ; and with that breath , your immortal spirit . The love of learning , though truly commendable , must ...
... truth . Let the first fruits of your intellect be laid before the altar of Him who breathed into your nostrils the breath of life ; and with that breath , your immortal spirit . The love of learning , though truly commendable , must ...
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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.