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, 1851 - 429 páginas |
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... considered as concise or diffuse , as nervous or feeble , as dry , plain , neat , elegant or flowery , as simple , or affected , as cold or vehement , as barren or luxuriant , and its essential requisites are clearness , unity ...
... considered as concise or diffuse , as nervous or feeble , as dry , plain , neat , elegant or flowery , as simple , or affected , as cold or vehement , as barren or luxuriant , and its essential requisites are clearness , unity ...
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... considered , the two processes may be united , in the consideration of the parts , qualities , properties , uses and ap pendages , as in the following Example . A PEN consists of the quill , pith , surfaces , shaft , nib , groove ...
... considered , the two processes may be united , in the consideration of the parts , qualities , properties , uses and ap pendages , as in the following Example . A PEN consists of the quill , pith , surfaces , shaft , nib , groove ...
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... considered as an introduction to a new day . To strengthen a character , which will fit me for heaven or for hell , to perform actions which will never be forgotten , to receive impressions which may never be effaced , to that world ...
... considered as an introduction to a new day . To strengthen a character , which will fit me for heaven or for hell , to perform actions which will never be forgotten , to receive impressions which may never be effaced , to that world ...
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... considered the most refreshing color to the eye therefore Providence has made it the common dress of nature . To err is human to forgive divine . The aim of orators is victory of historians truth of poets admiration . Saint Peter is ...
... considered the most refreshing color to the eye therefore Providence has made it the common dress of nature . To err is human to forgive divine . The aim of orators is victory of historians truth of poets admiration . Saint Peter is ...
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... considered ; namely , first , the root , from which the word is derived ; secondly , the prefix ; thirdly , the affix ; fourthly , the letters which are added for the sake of sound , and which may be called euphonic letters . The root ...
... considered ; namely , first , the root , from which the word is derived ; secondly , the prefix ; thirdly , the affix ; fourthly , the letters which are added for the sake of sound , and which may be called euphonic letters . The root ...
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Términos y frases comunes
50 cents 75 cents accent admiration Allowable rhymes amusement ancient Anthon's 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 phrase pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles proper prose remark rules sense sentence Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Página 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 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.
Página 294 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Página 293 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 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.
Página 401 - 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.
Página 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Página 146 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Página 293 - Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 148 - And besides this, giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; AND to virtue knowledge; AND to knowledge temperance; AND to temperance patience; AND to patience godliness; AND to godliness brotherly kindness; AND to brotherly kindness charity.