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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Արդյունքներ 89–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... proper preparation for its suc cessful performance should be laid in a diligent attention to the rules of grammar , a thorough knowledge of the principles of rhetoric , and a suc- cessful application of the maxims of logic ; for logic ...
... proper preparation for its suc cessful performance should be laid in a diligent attention to the rules of grammar , a thorough knowledge of the principles of rhetoric , and a suc- cessful application of the maxims of logic ; for logic ...
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... proper expression of the idea when obtained . To acquire ideas , it is necessary to cultivate habits of observation ; to use the eyes not only in noticing entire objects , but also their different parts ; to consider their quali- ties ...
... proper expression of the idea when obtained . To acquire ideas , it is necessary to cultivate habits of observation ; to use the eyes not only in noticing entire objects , but also their different parts ; to consider their quali- ties ...
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... proper to enforce the directions with regard to the spelling , and the proper use of words , in every exercise . Example . As my brother was riding in the country , he saw a beauti- ful , large house , painted white , with green blinds ...
... proper to enforce the directions with regard to the spelling , and the proper use of words , in every exercise . Example . As my brother was riding in the country , he saw a beauti- ful , large house , painted white , with green blinds ...
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... proper use of words , and the correct understanding of them , constitutes one of the greatest difficulties in written language . It is therefore highly important that every writer be careful to use the proper word to express the idea ...
... proper use of words , and the correct understanding of them , constitutes one of the greatest difficulties in written language . It is therefore highly important that every writer be careful to use the proper word to express the idea ...
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... proper accent . Example . " I saw with some surprise that the Muses , whose business was to cheer and encourage those who were toiling up the ascent , would often sing in the bowers of pleasure , and ac- company those who were enticed ...
... proper accent . Example . " I saw with some surprise that the Muses , whose business was to cheer and encourage those who were toiling up the ascent , would often sing in the bowers of pleasure , and ac- company those who were enticed ...
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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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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.