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 - 429 էջ |
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... give rules , or to lay down laws , to which all the departments of English Composition should be subjected . Genius cannot be fettered , and an original and thinking mind , replete with its own exuberance , will often burst out in ...
... give rules , or to lay down laws , to which all the departments of English Composition should be subjected . Genius cannot be fettered , and an original and thinking mind , replete with its own exuberance , will often burst out in ...
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... give us an account of what amused you 30 much . I fancy it will be as new to Robert as to me . William . I will do it readily . The lane leading to the heath , you know , is close and sandy , so I did not mind it much , but made the ...
... give us an account of what amused you 30 much . I fancy it will be as new to Robert as to me . William . I will do it readily . The lane leading to the heath , you know , is close and sandy , so I did not mind it much , but made the ...
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... give me leave . Tutor . What is that ? William . I will go again , and take with me Cary's country map , by which I shall probably be able to make out most of the places . Tutor . You shall have it , and I will go with you , and take my ...
... give me leave . Tutor . What is that ? William . I will go again , and take with me Cary's country map , by which I shall probably be able to make out most of the places . Tutor . You shall have it , and I will go with you , and take my ...
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... give a sentence its proper close , the longest member and the fullest words should be reserved for the conclusion . But in the distribution of the members , and in the cadence of the period , as well as in the sentences themselves ...
... give a sentence its proper close , the longest member and the fullest words should be reserved for the conclusion . But in the distribution of the members , and in the cadence of the period , as well as in the sentences themselves ...
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... give us an amiable representation of the Deity in these words : God is love . " 10. The period is used at the end of a complete and independent sen- tence . It is also placed after initial letters , when used alone ; and , like- wise ...
... give us an amiable representation of the Deity in these words : God is love . " 10. The period is used at the end of a complete and independent sen- tence . It is also placed after initial letters , when used alone ; and , like- wise ...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1850 |
Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades, Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1849 |
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50 cents 75 cents accent admiration Allowable rhymes amusement ancient Anthon's Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character composition connexion delight dodo effect English English language Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure genius give Greek Greek language happiness heart honor hypermeter idea imagination influence kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin nation nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical phrase pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles proper prose remark rules sense sentence Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.