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, 1850 - Всего страниц: 429 |
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... individuals , in any station of life , to whom ease and fluency in writing are not valuable acquisitions . All who are engaged in professional or commercial pursuits , and even the hardier sons of labor , whose " bread is procured by ...
... individuals , in any station of life , to whom ease and fluency in writing are not valuable acquisitions . All who are engaged in professional or commercial pursuits , and even the hardier sons of labor , whose " bread is procured by ...
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... , subdue , overcome , and surmount . Conquer signifies to seek or try to gain an object ; vanquish implies the binding of an individual ; subdue siguifies to give or put under ; overcome expresses the 42 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... , subdue , overcome , and surmount . Conquer signifies to seek or try to gain an object ; vanquish implies the binding of an individual ; subdue siguifies to give or put under ; overcome expresses the 42 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... individuals resort thither for the benefit of their salubrity . The places destined for the education of youth should be ... individual should be lavish of what is not his own , nor prodigal of what he gives another . There are but few ...
... individuals resort thither for the benefit of their salubrity . The places destined for the education of youth should be ... individual should be lavish of what is not his own , nor prodigal of what he gives another . There are but few ...
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... individual persons , they are not called by their proper names , but by their office , or some other designating appellation . * Thus , in speaking of Washington , the orator designates him , by antonomasia , as " the sage of Mount ...
... individual persons , they are not called by their proper names , but by their office , or some other designating appellation . * Thus , in speaking of Washington , the orator designates him , by antonomasia , as " the sage of Mount ...
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... individual thing to be defined is distinguished from other individuals of the same class . Thus , if a definition is required of the word justice , we may commence by saying , " Justice is that virtue which induces us to give every one ...
... individual thing to be defined is distinguished from other individuals of the same class . Thus , if a definition is required of the word justice , we may commence by saying , " Justice is that virtue which induces us to give every one ...
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accent acute accent admiration adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty called Catachresis cents character clause comma composition compound sentence derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind 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 remarkable rules Saxon sense Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit student style syllable tautology tence thing thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Стр. 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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. 291 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Стр. 20 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Стр. 397 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Стр. 235 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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. 129 - Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that...
Стр. 170 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Стр. 120 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the...