Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course)W. Small, Lee and Shepard, 1893 - 222 σελίδες |
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Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course) George Rice Carpenter Πλήρης προβολή - 1893 |
Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course) George Rice Carpenter Πλήρης προβολή - 1893 |
Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course) George Rice Carpenter Πλήρης προβολή - 1893 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Absalom Æneid Ahimaaz American Anglo-Saxon Aristotle authors beauty called Celt CHAPTER character clauses clear coherence common Cushi definite Dictionary difference Divine Comedy effect Elegance elements of style emotions emphasis English essay example expression faults feel following extracts following passages getic give habit halma hand idea idiom illustrations instance instructor interest king language Latin learning living logical long words loose sentence Lord matter means ment merely metaphor metonymy mind nation nature ness never Notice noun old Prussian Orpah paragraph Parliament periodic sentence persons Philistine phrases principles produced Professor pronouns punctuation reader Rembrandt Rhetoric rule schools senatorial courtesy sense short sentences simile solecisms speak speech student success sure synecdoche taste tence thee theme things thought tion unity unto Vanity Fair vocabulary whole composition WORDS versus writing young
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 189 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Σελίδα 192 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.
Σελίδα 185 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Σελίδα 60 - Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity ; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair : it is kept all the year long ; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity ; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise,
Σελίδα 67 - And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone there is tidings in his mouth.
Σελίδα 68 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Σελίδα 103 - There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Σελίδα 68 - And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God : where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried : the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Σελίδα 185 - So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
Σελίδα 68 - All is well." And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, "Blessed be the Lord thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.