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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... young friend ; and after he has thus written it , to revise it carefully , to see whether any of his words are mis - spelt , and whether he has used the very words which he intended to use . Example . On returning home yesterday , I saw ...
... young friend ; and after he has thus written it , to revise it carefully , to see whether any of his words are mis - spelt , and whether he has used the very words which he intended to use . Example . On returning home yesterday , I saw ...
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... Young persons are seldom at a loss for topics of conversa- tion , when left unrestrained to themselves . But as soon as they are required to write what is called a composition , they feel at a loss what to say . This arises from no ...
... Young persons are seldom at a loss for topics of conversa- tion , when left unrestrained to themselves . But as soon as they are required to write what is called a composition , they feel at a loss what to say . This arises from no ...
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... young student , or that he be required to read it carefully , in order that he may learn to use his eyes aright , and attentively observe what passes before them . THE TUTOR AND HIS PUPILS . Eyes and no Eyes ; or , the Art of Seeing ...
... young student , or that he be required to read it carefully , in order that he may learn to use his eyes aright , and attentively observe what passes before them . THE TUTOR AND HIS PUPILS . Eyes and no Eyes ; or , the Art of Seeing ...
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... young viper , which they had just killed , together with its dam . I have seen several common snakes , but this is thicker in proportion , and of a darker color than they are . Tutor . True . Vipers frequent those turfy , boggy grounds ...
... young viper , which they had just killed , together with its dam . I have seen several common snakes , but this is thicker in proportion , and of a darker color than they are . Tutor . True . Vipers frequent those turfy , boggy grounds ...
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... young in these holes , which run a great depth , and by their situation are secure from all plunderers . William . A little farther , I saw a man in a boat , who was catching eels in an odd way . He had a long pole with broad iron ...
... young in these holes , which run a great depth , and by their situation are secure from all plunderers . William . A little farther , I saw a man in a boat , who was catching eels in an odd way . He had a long pole with broad iron ...
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accent acute accent admiration adverb 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 lady 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.
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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.
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Стр. 397 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
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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...