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 páginas |
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... imagination and luxuriance of intellect are the greatest gifts of which a poet can boast . We may be eminent and illustrious for things good , bad , or indifferent , we may be distinguished for our singularities ; we may be conspicuous ...
... imagination and luxuriance of intellect are the greatest gifts of which a poet can boast . We may be eminent and illustrious for things good , bad , or indifferent , we may be distinguished for our singularities ; we may be conspicuous ...
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... imagination , and that in a single word , the reciprocal duties and enjoyments of hospitality , friendship , or love . Such are hearth , roof , fireside . The chief emotions , too , of which we are susceptible , are expressed in the ...
... imagination , and that in a single word , the reciprocal duties and enjoyments of hospitality , friendship , or love . Such are hearth , roof , fireside . The chief emotions , too , of which we are susceptible , are expressed in the ...
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... imagination . In performing these exer- cises , the greatest latitude may be allowed , and the learner may be permitted not only to alter the language , but to sub- stitute his own ideas , and to vary the circumstances , so as to make ...
... imagination . In performing these exer- cises , the greatest latitude may be allowed , and the learner may be permitted not only to alter the language , but to sub- stitute his own ideas , and to vary the circumstances , so as to make ...
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... imagination . " The sentence would be im proved by using the conjunctions in pairs , substituting neither for not . In the following sentences , the conjunction but is improperly used . " I cannot deny but that I was in fault . " " It ...
... imagination . " The sentence would be im proved by using the conjunctions in pairs , substituting neither for not . In the following sentences , the conjunction but is improperly used . " I cannot deny but that I was in fault . " " It ...
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... imagination than the last ; but the difficulty of the task must not prevent an attempt at its execution , Examples . * Plain . It was evening , and the sun slowly went down . Figurative . ' T was eve : upon his chariot throne The sun ...
... imagination than the last ; but the difficulty of the task must not prevent an attempt at its execution , Examples . * Plain . It was evening , and the sun slowly went down . Figurative . ' T was eve : upon his chariot throne The sun ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give 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 thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young