Précis Writing for American Schools: Methods of Abridging, Summarizing, Condensing, with Copious ExercisesSamuel Thurber Little, Brown and Company, 1924 - 150 էջ |
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... leaves in the minds of youth neither clear - cut image nor abstract idea ? During my teaching experience with pupils of commercial , technical , and college - preparatory courses I have found the making of short , well - constructed ...
... leaves in the minds of youth neither clear - cut image nor abstract idea ? During my teaching experience with pupils of commercial , technical , and college - preparatory courses I have found the making of short , well - constructed ...
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... leaves make a deal of noisy whispering . I have sometimes thought I could understand them , as they talk with each other , and that they seemed to think they made the wind as they wagged forward and back . Remember what I say . The next ...
... leaves make a deal of noisy whispering . I have sometimes thought I could understand them , as they talk with each other , and that they seemed to think they made the wind as they wagged forward and back . Remember what I say . The next ...
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... leaves his Last Supper undepicted ; but he drives a Tube through the London clay . Cellini no longer casts a Perseus and alternates a murder with a Trattato ; he builds engines and railroads and ships . Michael Angelo smites no sibyls ...
... leaves his Last Supper undepicted ; but he drives a Tube through the London clay . Cellini no longer casts a Perseus and alternates a murder with a Trattato ; he builds engines and railroads and ships . Michael Angelo smites no sibyls ...
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... leaves or the sombre brown of a dusty highway . Most beautiful is the silvery sheen of rain on warm summer days , when the descent is intermittent and one has the pleasure of specu- lating on the quality of the rain to be . The poets ...
... leaves or the sombre brown of a dusty highway . Most beautiful is the silvery sheen of rain on warm summer days , when the descent is intermittent and one has the pleasure of specu- lating on the quality of the rain to be . The poets ...
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... leaf in autumn . He had an eye of great quickness and vivacity , with a drollery and lurking waggery of expression that was irresistible . He was evi- dently the wit of the family , dealing very much in sly jokes and innuendoes with the ...
... leaf in autumn . He had an eye of great quickness and vivacity , with a drollery and lurking waggery of expression that was irresistible . He was evi- dently the wit of the family , dealing very much in sly jokes and innuendoes with the ...
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Էջ 146 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Էջ 108 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Էջ 124 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain hath bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Էջ 145 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Էջ 146 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Էջ 121 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Էջ 142 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Էջ 26 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Էջ 25 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings; Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Էջ 133 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man ,' Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.