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, 1863 - 429 páginas |
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... admiration . Saint Peter is painted with the keys Paul with a sword Andrew with a cross James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff and a gourd bottle James the Less with a fuller's pole John with a cup and a winged serpent Bar- tholomew ...
... admiration . Saint Peter is painted with the keys Paul with a sword Andrew with a cross James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff and a gourd bottle James the Less with a fuller's pole John with a cup and a winged serpent Bar- tholomew ...
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... admirable satire , " says Mr. Booth , " is indis- pensable to every one who would study the principles of English Compo- sition : " " " We may define amplification to be making the most of a thought ; it is the spinning - wheel of the ...
... admirable satire , " says Mr. Booth , " is indis- pensable to every one who would study the principles of English Compo- sition : " " " We may define amplification to be making the most of a thought ; it is the spinning - wheel of the ...
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... admired as Cynthio , " is inaccurate , because , when it is analyzed , it will be , " He was more beloved as Cynthio , " & c . The adverb more requires the conjunction than after it ; and the sentence should be , " He was more beloved ...
... admired as Cynthio , " is inaccurate , because , when it is analyzed , it will be , " He was more beloved as Cynthio , " & c . The adverb more requires the conjunction than after it ; and the sentence should be , " He was more beloved ...
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... admiration , yet , with the name of Hamilton , as the master says of tragedy , the lesson is given " with pity and in fear . " Not so with that of Jay ; with him we walk fearless , as in the steps of one who was a CHRIS TIAN as well as ...
... admiration , yet , with the name of Hamilton , as the master says of tragedy , the lesson is given " with pity and in fear . " Not so with that of Jay ; with him we walk fearless , as in the steps of one who was a CHRIS TIAN as well as ...
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... admired , she had no Pride about her , though Vanity , an old man living in the vicinity , used to lay a claim to ... admiring her for her many good qualities . She appeared to be compounded of all the qualities that adorn the female ...
... admired , she had no Pride about her , though Vanity , an old man living in the vicinity , used to lay a claim to ... admiring her for her many good qualities . She appeared to be compounded of all the qualities that adorn the female ...
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Aids to English Composition Prepared for Students of All Grades Richard Green Parker Vista completa - 1875 |
Términos y frases comunes
accent acute accent admiration adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause composition connexion delight derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind labor lady language Latin Latin language 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 phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper prose remark rule sense signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology tence thing thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Página 293 - Some village 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 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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 293 - E'en in our Ashes live their wonted Fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd 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 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.
Página 403 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Página 142 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Página 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.
Página 129 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Página 403 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.