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, 1854 - 429 páginas |
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... relation to other things . The mind employed in such processes ac- quires materials for its own operations , and thoughts and ideas arise as it were spontaneously . For the first exercise in composition , therefore , it is pro- posed ...
... relation to other things . The mind employed in such processes ac- quires materials for its own operations , and thoughts and ideas arise as it were spontaneously . For the first exercise in composition , therefore , it is pro- posed ...
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... relation to the past night , the morning is a fit time for devotion , but 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 ...
... relation to the past night , the morning is a fit time for devotion , but 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 ...
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... relation , & c . , belonging to every verb and to every noun . 66 The note of interrogation , † or the question , as it is sometimes called , is placed after every sentence which contains a question ; as , Who is this ? " " What have ...
... relation , & c . , belonging to every verb and to every noun . 66 The note of interrogation , † or the question , as it is sometimes called , is placed after every sentence which contains a question ; as , Who is this ? " " What have ...
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... relations . The Creator endowed man with a lofty countenance and directed him to look up to heaven . In the following extracts the student may alter the words in Italic , so as to complete the rhymes ; as in the following Example . Did ...
... relations . The Creator endowed man with a lofty countenance and directed him to look up to heaven . In the following extracts the student may alter the words in Italic , so as to complete the rhymes ; as in the following Example . Did ...
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... relation of the several parts to each other . This rule requires that the verb should be placed as near as possible to the nominative ; that the object should follow the verb in close succession , that adverbs should be placed near the ...
... relation of the several parts to each other . This rule requires that the verb should be placed as near as possible to the nominative ; that the object should follow the verb in close succession , that adverbs should be placed near the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz able rhymes admiration adverb Allowable rhymes amusement ancient Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character composition connexion delight derived 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 language Latin Latin language learning letter literary literature look manner means mind moral nation nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles proper prose reason remarks rules sense sentence signifies society sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable taste tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Página 279 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored 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 the upland lawn.
Página 125 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 229 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 102 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 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 279 - 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 28 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Página 278 - Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre ; But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
Página 20 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Página 80 - Beware !" her vest of gold Broidered with flowers and clasped from head to foot, An emerald stone in every golden clasp, And on her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face ! So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart : It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody.
Página 125 - While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain ^ Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And e'en in penance planning sins anew.