The Alphabet of Rhetoric: With a Chapter on Elocution; Intended as a Familiar Companion for All that Care to Speak and Write CorrectlyD. Appleton, 1903 - 368 páginas |
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... Adverbs . Nothing contributes more to the ex- actness and elegance of a sentence than the proper placing of the adverb . The choice of place often de- pends upon the question whether the adverb is the emphatic and significant word in ...
... Adverbs . Nothing contributes more to the ex- actness and elegance of a sentence than the proper placing of the adverb . The choice of place often de- pends upon the question whether the adverb is the emphatic and significant word in ...
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... adverbs , especially very and most . It is safe to as- sert that in half the instances where these words are used to intensify adjectives , the sentence would be more accurate as well as more elegant if the adverb were omitted . No ...
... adverbs , especially very and most . It is safe to as- sert that in half the instances where these words are used to intensify adjectives , the sentence would be more accurate as well as more elegant if the adverb were omitted . No ...
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... adverb ( instead of afterward ) , especially with " soon , " as " He went to California , and died soon after . " The cyclopædias are peppered on nearly every THE ALPHABET OF RHETORIC II intimate friend," but always "She is my ...
... adverb ( instead of afterward ) , especially with " soon , " as " He went to California , and died soon after . " The cyclopædias are peppered on nearly every THE ALPHABET OF RHETORIC II intimate friend," but always "She is my ...
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... adverb . " I have not but one lamp " is " I have not any lamp except one , " but in this case being a preposition . But though the two expressions are equally correct , they are not equally elegant . The form used by 52 THE ALPHABET OF ...
... adverb . " I have not but one lamp " is " I have not any lamp except one , " but in this case being a preposition . But though the two expressions are equally correct , they are not equally elegant . The form used by 52 THE ALPHABET OF ...
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... adverbs and conjunctions that may or must be followed by others ( going in pairs ) are called correlatives . They are often mis- mated , even in otherwise correct speaking and wri- ting . The correlative of as is either as or so , THE ...
... adverbs and conjunctions that may or must be followed by others ( going in pairs ) are called correlatives . They are often mis- mated , even in otherwise correct speaking and wri- ting . The correlative of as is either as or so , THE ...
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Página 139 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Página 126 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 147 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 215 - Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Página 133 - The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Página 27 - Ye stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are A beauty, and a mystery, and create G In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Página 190 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Página 218 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime ? Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine...
Página 96 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Página 322 - They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.