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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... kind of black cloud , hovering over the field . After taking a short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties ...
... kind of black cloud , hovering over the field . After taking a short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties ...
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... kind of wharf , built of stones , near the bathing place , and , happening to stoop over too far to look at some eels , that were gliding through the water below , he lost his balance and fell in . Nobody was near but Guido , and he ...
... kind of wharf , built of stones , near the bathing place , and , happening to stoop over too far to look at some eels , that were gliding through the water below , he lost his balance and fell in . Nobody was near but Guido , and he ...
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... kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used on the word alone , becomes a question . " Pleased thou shalt hear , and thou alóne shalt hear ? " But , if the grave accent be placed on the word ...
... kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used on the word alone , becomes a question . " Pleased thou shalt hear , and thou alóne shalt hear ? " But , if the grave accent be placed on the word ...
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... . Homo , of one kind . Hydro , water . Hyper , over . In , Im , Il , not , with an adje tive , into , with a verb , on . Inter , among . ALPHABETICAL SYNOPSIS OF AFFLAS . AFFIXES TO AFFIXES . Are 36 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... . Homo , of one kind . Hydro , water . Hyper , over . In , Im , Il , not , with an adje tive , into , with a verb , on . Inter , among . ALPHABETICAL SYNOPSIS OF AFFLAS . AFFIXES TO AFFIXES . Are 36 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... kind just enumerated , the words strictly synonomous are few , yet it is often the case that one word of similar meaning may be substituted in a sentence for another , without materially altering the idea intended to be expressed . Thus ...
... kind just enumerated , the words strictly synonomous are few , yet it is often the case that one word of similar meaning may be substituted in a sentence for another , without materially altering the idea intended to be expressed . Thus ...
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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.