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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... principles of rhetoric , and a suc- cessful application of the maxims of logic ; for logic must direct us in the selection of ideas , rhetoric must clothe them in a suitable dress , and grammar must adapt the dress to the peculiar form ...
... principles of rhetoric , and a suc- cessful application of the maxims of logic ; for logic must direct us in the selection of ideas , rhetoric must clothe them in a suitable dress , and grammar must adapt the dress to the peculiar form ...
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... principle , it is rècom- mended that an attention to the subject of composition should be com- menced early in life . Exercises of a simple cha.acter prepare the mind for higher exertion ; and readiness and facility in the lower ...
... principle , it is rècom- mended that an attention to the subject of composition should be com- menced early in life . Exercises of a simple cha.acter prepare the mind for higher exertion ; and readiness and facility in the lower ...
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... principles which I cannot well explain to you , till you know more of that branch of science . But what a number of new ideas this afternoon's walk has afforded you ! I do not wonder that you found it amusing ; it has been very ...
... principles which I cannot well explain to you , till you know more of that branch of science . But what a number of new ideas this afternoon's walk has afforded you ! I do not wonder that you found it amusing ; it has been very ...
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... principle of Christian charity . Julius Cæsar wrote in a clear natural correct flowing style . * The word caret is derived from the Latin language , and signifies it i wanting . † The word paragraph is derived from the Greek language ...
... principle of Christian charity . Julius Cæsar wrote in a clear natural correct flowing style . * The word caret is derived from the Latin language , and signifies it i wanting . † The word paragraph is derived from the Greek language ...
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... principles of the preceding methods of Inver- sion and Transposition . Providence alone can order the changing of the seasons . Can you expect to be exempted from these troubles which all must suffer ? Earth shall claim thy growth , to ...
... principles of the preceding methods of Inver- sion and Transposition . Providence alone can order the changing of the seasons . Can you expect to be exempted from these troubles which all must suffer ? Earth shall claim thy growth , to ...
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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...