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, 1858 - 429 էջ |
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... Antonomasia ,. XXII . Pleonasm , Verbosity , and Redundancy , XXIV . Translation , or Conversion of Poetry into Prose ,. XXVI . Of Grammatical Propriety , XXVII . On the selection of Words and Expressions , XXIX . Of Clearness , ⚫ XXX ...
... Antonomasia ,. XXII . Pleonasm , Verbosity , and Redundancy , XXIV . Translation , or Conversion of Poetry into Prose ,. XXVI . Of Grammatical Propriety , XXVII . On the selection of Words and Expressions , XXIX . Of Clearness , ⚫ XXX ...
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... ANTONOMASIA . Periphrase , periphrasis , and circumlocution , are words all meaning the same thing , and are equivalent to what is gener- " How call you these grunting brutes running about on their fore legs ? " demanded Wamba . " Swine ...
... ANTONOMASIA . Periphrase , periphrasis , and circumlocution , are words all meaning the same thing , and are equivalent to what is gener- " How call you these grunting brutes running about on their fore legs ? " demanded Wamba . " Swine ...
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... Antonomasia . Words , or phrases that call up disagreeable ideas are , in po lite language , softened by means of circumlocutions . In these changes , as well as in most others , custom is the guide . It is reckoned more decorous , for ...
... Antonomasia . Words , or phrases that call up disagreeable ideas are , in po lite language , softened by means of circumlocutions . In these changes , as well as in most others , custom is the guide . It is reckoned more decorous , for ...
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... antonomasia becomes apparent . It will thus be seen , that this form of expression is frequently nothing more than an instance of periphrasis , or circumlocution . This form of expression is very common in parliamentary language and in ...
... antonomasia becomes apparent . It will thus be seen , that this form of expression is frequently nothing more than an instance of periphrasis , or circumlocution . This form of expression is very common in parliamentary language and in ...
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... Antonomasia . Her Majesty . The author of the Iliad ard Odyssey . The Sage of Mount Vernon . The earliest of the Poets . The Hero of Waterloo . * No word of Holy Writ has in it a better turn of worldly wisdom than that from the Book of ...
... Antonomasia . Her Majesty . The author of the Iliad ard Odyssey . The Sage of Mount Vernon . The earliest of the Poets . The Hero of Waterloo . * No word of Holy Writ has in it a better turn of worldly wisdom than that from the Book of ...
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Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades : Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1854 |
Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades : Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades : Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1852 |
Common terms and phrases
75 cents accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes amusement ancient 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 phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles proper prose reason remark rules sense sentence Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable taste tautology thing thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Էջ 129 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 399 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Էջ 293 - For thee, who mindful of the unhonoured 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...
Էջ 292 - How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour: — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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 131 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Էջ 403 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Էջ 402 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Էջ 20 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.