Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All GradesHarper & Bros., 1857 |
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... tion in 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 ...
... tion in 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 ...
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... tion , when left unrestrained to themselves . But as soon as they are required to write what is called a composition , they feel at a loss what to say . This arises from no inability to form ideas , nor from want of words to express ...
... tion , when left unrestrained to themselves . But as soon as they are required to write what is called a composition , they feel at a loss what to say . This arises from no inability to form ideas , nor from want of words to express ...
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... tion ; such as surprise , joy , grief , love , hatred , anger , pity , anxiety , ardent wish , & c . It is also used to mark an exalted idea of the Deity ; and is generally placed after the nominative case independent ; and after the ...
... tion ; such as surprise , joy , grief , love , hatred , anger , pity , anxiety , ardent wish , & c . It is also used to mark an exalted idea of the Deity ; and is generally placed after the nominative case independent ; and after the ...
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... tion of the productions of nature to all the works of men XV . DERIVATION AND COMPOSITION OF WORDS . Words , with regard to their origin , are divided into primi- tive and derivative ; and , with regard to their form , into sim- ple and ...
... tion of the productions of nature to all the works of men XV . DERIVATION AND COMPOSITION OF WORDS . Words , with regard to their origin , are divided into primi- tive and derivative ; and , with regard to their form , into sim- ple and ...
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... tion with respect to any causes that might interrupt it ; calm , with regard to a disturbed situation going before or following it . A good man enjoys tranquillity , in himself ; peace , with others ; and calm , after a storm . In a ...
... tion with respect to any causes that might interrupt it ; calm , with regard to a disturbed situation going before or following it . A good man enjoys tranquillity , in himself ; peace , with others ; and calm , after a storm . In a ...
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75 cents accent admiration adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes amusement ancient Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character composition connexion delight 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 letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin nation nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical phrase pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles proper prose reason remark rules sense sentence Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable taste thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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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 403 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
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 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
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.
Página 404 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 402 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Página 124 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Página 294 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. " The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow thro' the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.