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, 1845 - Всего страниц: 429 |
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... living by wading among the shallows , and picking up worms and insects . William . There were a great many swallows , too , sporting upon the surface of the water , that entertained me with their motions . Sometimes they dashed into the ...
... living by wading among the shallows , and picking up worms and insects . William . There were a great many swallows , too , sporting upon the surface of the water , that entertained me with their motions . Sometimes they dashed into the ...
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... living do as many drink and eat we should , to live in order . Glorious the Sun how an object is ; but glorious more how much good is great that and good Being use for our made it who . XIII . CAPITAL LETTERS . The first word of every ...
... living do as many drink and eat we should , to live in order . Glorious the Sun how an object is ; but glorious more how much good is great that and good Being use for our made it who . XIII . CAPITAL LETTERS . The first word of every ...
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... living teacher , or the pupil himself , may easily select them from any volume at hand . But it may here be remarked that exercises on synonymous phrases may be considered as more valuable than those on simple terms , because they may ...
... living teacher , or the pupil himself , may easily select them from any volume at hand . But it may here be remarked that exercises on synonymous phrases may be considered as more valuable than those on simple terms , because they may ...
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... living creatures are as- cribed to inanimate objects ; the second , when these inanimate objects are described as acting like such as have life ; and the third , when they are ex- hibited as speaking to us , or as listening . The first ...
... living creatures are as- cribed to inanimate objects ; the second , when these inanimate objects are described as acting like such as have life ; and the third , when they are ex- hibited as speaking to us , or as listening . The first ...
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... living , a name at which frailty blushed , and corruption trembled . If we ask whence , humanly speaking , came such disparity of the fate be- tween equals , the stricter morals , the happier life , the more peaceful death , to what can ...
... living , a name at which frailty blushed , and corruption trembled . If we ask whence , humanly speaking , came such disparity of the fate be- tween equals , the stricter morals , the happier life , the more peaceful death , to what can ...
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accent acute accent adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence frequently give Grammar grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic 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. 372 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Стр. 403 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Стр. 237 - 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. 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. 170 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Стр. 403 - 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 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; 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.
Стр. 105 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Стр. 321 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.