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, 1845 - 429 σελίδες |
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... sentence in separate lines and numbering them , he may afterwards arrange them by their numbers , as in the following example : 1 We , 2 with the rest of our party , 3 notwithstanding the storm and darkness , 4 pursued , 5 our journey . 1 ...
... sentence in separate lines and numbering them , he may afterwards arrange them by their numbers , as in the following example : 1 We , 2 with the rest of our party , 3 notwithstanding the storm and darkness , 4 pursued , 5 our journey . 1 ...
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Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English ... Example . 1 . A gratitude emotion delightful is . Gratitude is a delightful emotion . 2 . Exclamation interesting ...
Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English ... Example . 1 . A gratitude emotion delightful is . Gratitude is a delightful emotion . 2 . Exclamation interesting ...
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... Example 1st . He continued the work without stopping . He continued the work without resting . He continued the work without cessation . He continued the work without intermission . He continued the work without delay . He continued the ...
... Example 1st . He continued the work without stopping . He continued the work without resting . He continued the work without cessation . He continued the work without intermission . He continued the work without delay . He continued the ...
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... examples are presented below , in which the ... 1st . " The lamb is tame in its disposition . " Here the word tame is incorrectly used for gentle ; tame- ness is produced by discipline ; gentleness belongs to the natural disposition . Example ...
... examples are presented below , in which the ... 1st . " The lamb is tame in its disposition . " Here the word tame is incorrectly used for gentle ; tame- ness is produced by discipline ; gentleness belongs to the natural disposition . Example ...
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... examples . Example 1st . By changing active verbs into passive , and the contrary ; thus , By the active verb . A multitude of delighted guests soon filled the places of those who refused to come . By the passive verb . The places of ...
... examples . Example 1st . By changing active verbs into passive , and the contrary ; thus , By the active verb . A multitude of delighted guests soon filled the places of those who refused to come . By the passive verb . The places of ...
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accent acute accent adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence frequently give Grammar grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Σελίδα 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 403 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Σελίδα 237 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Σελίδα 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Σελίδα 170 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Σελίδα 403 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Σελίδα 129 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Σελίδα 105 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Σελίδα 321 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.