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, 1845 - 429 páginas |
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... remarked even by Homer , who compares the foe flying from one of his heroes , to a cloud of starlings retiring dismayed at the approach of the hawk . William . After I had left the meadows , I crossed the cornfields in the way to our ...
... remarked even by Homer , who compares the foe flying from one of his heroes , to a cloud of starlings retiring dismayed at the approach of the hawk . William . After I had left the meadows , I crossed the cornfields in the way to our ...
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... remark may here be made that the change of a single letter , or the removal of the accent , frequently alters the en- tire character of a word . Thus the words advise and prac- tise , which are verbs , expressing an action , by the ...
... remark may here be made that the change of a single letter , or the removal of the accent , frequently alters the en- tire character of a word . Thus the words advise and prac- tise , which are verbs , expressing an action , by the ...
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... Remarked , with Equal piety and truth , that the Creation is a Perpetual feast To the mind of a Good man . • diligence , industry , and Proper improvement Of time , Are Material duties of the Young ; but the young Often Neglect These ...
... Remarked , with Equal piety and truth , that the Creation is a Perpetual feast To the mind of a Good man . • diligence , industry , and Proper improvement Of time , Are Material duties of the Young ; but the young Often Neglect These ...
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... remark into a piece of horrid blasphemy : " Believing Richard Brothers to be a prophet sent , by God I have engraved his portrait . " Had the comma been removed two words forward , the assertion would have been innocent . † The word ...
... remark into a piece of horrid blasphemy : " Believing Richard Brothers to be a prophet sent , by God I have engraved his portrait . " Had the comma been removed two words forward , the assertion would have been innocent . † The word ...
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... remarked , that a parenthesis is frequently placed be- · tween commas , instead of crotchets , & c .; but the best writers avoid the . ase of parentheses as much as is possible . The hyphen is a small mark placed between the parts of a ...
... remarked , that a parenthesis is frequently placed be- · tween commas , instead of crotchets , & c .; but the best writers avoid the . ase of parentheses as much as is possible . The hyphen is a small mark placed between the parts of a ...
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Termos e frases comuns
accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young