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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... head , while it perfumed the air with its delicious fragrance . At the back of the house were a num- ber of fruit trees , in full blossom , among which was the peach tree , with its beautiful pink flowers . Some boys were seen ...
... head , while it perfumed the air with its delicious fragrance . At the back of the house were a num- ber of fruit trees , in full blossom , among which was the peach tree , with its beautiful pink flowers . Some boys were seen ...
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... head , and crying pewit so distinct- ly , one might almost fancy they spoke . I thought I should have caught one of them , for he flew as if one of his wings was broken , and often tumbled close to the ground ; but , as I came near , he ...
... head , and crying pewit so distinct- ly , one might almost fancy they spoke . I thought I should have caught one of them , for he flew as if one of his wings was broken , and often tumbled close to the ground ; but , as I came near , he ...
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... head and bill , and a short tail . Tutor . I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which it catches in the manner you saw . It ...
... head and bill , and a short tail . Tutor . I can tell you what that bird was a kingfisher , the celebrated halcyon of the ancients , about which so many tales are told . It lives on fish , which it catches in the manner you saw . It ...
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... head , with his large flapping wings . He alighted at the next turn of the river , and I crept softly behind the bank to watch his motions . He had waded into the water as far as his long legs would carry him , and was standing with his ...
... head , with his large flapping wings . He alighted at the next turn of the river , and I crept softly behind the bank to watch his motions . He had waded into the water as far as his long legs would carry him , and was standing with his ...
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... head . Tutor . It does so ; and you may probably have observed the same apparent enlargement of the moon at its rising . William . I have ; but pray what is the reason of this ? Tutor . It is an optical deception , depending upon ...
... head . Tutor . It does so ; and you may probably have observed the same apparent enlargement of the moon at its rising . William . I have ; but pray what is the reason of this ? Tutor . It is an optical deception , depending upon ...
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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 |
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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.