Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All GradesHarper & Bros., 1857 |
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... whole acres of reeds by settling on them . This disposition of starlings to fly in close swarms was remarked even by Homer , who compares the foe flying from one of his heroes , to a cloud of starlings retiring dismayed at the approach ...
... whole acres of reeds by settling on them . This disposition of starlings to fly in close swarms was remarked even by Homer , who compares the foe flying from one of his heroes , to a cloud of starlings retiring dismayed at the approach ...
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... whole ; seen , scene , seine ; stile , style ; straight , strait ; waist , waste ; bell , belle ; sell , cell ; herd , heard ; wring , ring ; aught , ought ; lessen , lesson ; profit , prophet ; choler , collar ; well , ( a noun ...
... whole ; seen , scene , seine ; stile , style ; straight , strait ; waist , waste ; bell , belle ; sell , cell ; herd , heard ; wring , ring ; aught , ought ; lessen , lesson ; profit , prophet ; choler , collar ; well , ( a noun ...
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... whole circle of vices like shadows towards the evening of life appear enormous to a thinking person . You are not to suppose that the fate either of single persons of empires or of the whole earth depends on the influence of the stars ...
... whole circle of vices like shadows towards the evening of life appear enormous to a thinking person . You are not to suppose that the fate either of single persons of empires or of the whole earth depends on the influence of the stars ...
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... whole place presenting the idea of a magnificent theatre , that was illuminated with a vast profusion of lights . An endless variety of characters , dispositions , and passions , diversifies the wide circle of human affairs . A crowd ...
... whole place presenting the idea of a magnificent theatre , that was illuminated with a vast profusion of lights . An endless variety of characters , dispositions , and passions , diversifies the wide circle of human affairs . A crowd ...
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... whole of which 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 ...
... whole of which 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 ...
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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.