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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... particular has been considerably extended and enriched , from sources not within his reach in the original preparation of the volume . The examples and exercises in various parts of the work have been much improved by the rejection of ...
... particular has been considerably extended and enriched , from sources not within his reach in the original preparation of the volume . The examples and exercises in various parts of the work have been much improved by the rejection of ...
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... particular attention : " Sumite materiam qui scribitis æquam " Viribus . " ' Or , in the translation of Mr. Francis : ** Examine well , ye writers , weigh with care , What suits your genius , what your strength will bear . CONTENTS ...
... particular attention : " Sumite materiam qui scribitis æquam " Viribus . " ' Or , in the translation of Mr. Francis : ** Examine well , ye writers , weigh with care , What suits your genius , what your strength will bear . CONTENTS ...
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... particular notice of them . Tutor . Why not ? Robert . I do not know . I did not care about them ; and I made the best of my way home . Tutor . That would have been right , if you had been sent on a mes- sage ; but , as you only walked ...
... particular notice of them . Tutor . Why not ? Robert . I do not know . I did not care about them ; and I made the best of my way home . Tutor . That would have been right , if you had been sent on a mes- sage ; but , as you only walked ...
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... particular part of the curious workmanship . But , before Francesco reached the gallery , the lovely and unfortunate girl had ceased to breathe in that closely shut chest . Many times they passed the gallery , but they heeded not the ...
... particular part of the curious workmanship . But , before Francesco reached the gallery , the lovely and unfortunate girl had ceased to breathe in that closely shut chest . Many times they passed the gallery , but they heeded not the ...
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... Particular attention must be given so to the place of the pronouns who , which , what , whose , & c . , and of all hose particles which express the connexion of the parts of speech . The ollowing sentence is faulty in this respect ...
... Particular attention must be given so to the place of the pronouns who , which , what , whose , & c . , and of all hose particles which express the connexion of the parts of speech . The ollowing sentence is faulty in this respect ...
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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.