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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... 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 . XIn 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 . XIn In a ...
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50 cents 75 cents accent admiration Allowable rhymes amusement ancient Anthon's 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 lady 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 remark rules sense sentence Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable 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 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.