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, 1851 - 429 páginas |
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... hands . But as his labors have been found useful , he has been encouraged to extend them , in the hope that they will prove beneficial , especially to those who have neither the leisure nor the inclination , to seek in the wide fields ...
... hands . But as his labors have been found useful , he has been encouraged to extend them , in the hope that they will prove beneficial , especially to those who have neither the leisure nor the inclination , to seek in the wide fields ...
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... hands and be put into permanent form until he had given it a careful revision , and made it as worthy as he could of the favor with which it has been receiv- ed , has made some important improvements in the plan , the ar- rangement ...
... hands and be put into permanent form until he had given it a careful revision , and made it as worthy as he could of the favor with which it has been receiv- ed , has made some important improvements in the plan , the ar- rangement ...
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... hand . The arm . EFL The contents of a box . A secretary . A plate . A barrel . A lamp . A kite . A dressing - case . A sofa . A chair . The foot . The eye . The ear . The nose . A candlestick . A lock . A key . The mouth . The human ...
... hand . The arm . EFL The contents of a box . A secretary . A plate . A barrel . A lamp . A kite . A dressing - case . A sofa . A chair . The foot . The eye . The ear . The nose . A candlestick . A lock . A key . The mouth . The human ...
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... hand , in signs which present themselves to the eye , that , which with their voice , they convey to the ears of others . In other words , that in their early attempts at writing compo- sition , they may write down in letters , what ...
... hand , in signs which present themselves to the eye , that , which with their voice , they convey to the ears of others . In other words , that in their early attempts at writing compo- sition , they may write down in letters , what ...
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... hand , a Franklin could not cross the Channel without making some observations useful to mankind . While many a vacant , thoughtless youth , is whirled throughout Europe , without gaining a single idea worth crossing a street for ; the ...
... hand , a Franklin could not cross the Channel without making some observations useful to mankind . While many a vacant , thoughtless youth , is whirled throughout Europe , without gaining a single idea worth crossing a street for ; the ...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Visualização completa - 1847 |
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Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades, Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Visualização completa - 1849 |
Termos e frases comuns
accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound sentence connexion derived earth effect English English language Example 2d exercise expression father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind labor language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin 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 proposition prose remark rule Saxon sense Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons thou thought tion 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 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 294 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Página 293 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 401 - 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 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Página 146 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Página 293 - 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 148 - And besides this, giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; AND to virtue knowledge; AND to knowledge temperance; AND to temperance patience; AND to patience godliness; AND to godliness brotherly kindness; AND to brotherly kindness charity.