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, 1850 - 429 páginas |
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... kind of black cloud , hovering over the field . After taking a short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties ...
... kind of black cloud , hovering over the field . After taking a short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties ...
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... kind of wharf , built of stones , near the bathing place , and , happening to stoop over too far to look at some eels , that were gliding through the water below , he lost his balance and fell in . Nobody was near but Guido , and he ...
... kind of wharf , built of stones , near the bathing place , and , happening to stoop over too far to look at some eels , that were gliding through the water below , he lost his balance and fell in . Nobody was near but Guido , and he ...
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... kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used on the word alone , becomes a question . " Pleased thou shalt hear , and thou alóne shalt hear ? " But , if the grave accent be placed on the word ...
... kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used on the word alone , becomes a question . " Pleased thou shalt hear , and thou alóne shalt hear ? " But , if the grave accent be placed on the word ...
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... . Homo , of one kind . Hydro , water . Hyper , over . In , Im , Il , not , with an adje tive , into , with a verb , on . Inter , among . ALPHABETICAL SYNOPSIS OF AFFIXES . AFFIXES TO AFFIXES . Ate 86 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... . Homo , of one kind . Hydro , water . Hyper , over . In , Im , Il , not , with an adje tive , into , with a verb , on . Inter , among . ALPHABETICAL SYNOPSIS OF AFFIXES . AFFIXES TO AFFIXES . Ate 86 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... kind just enumerated , the words strictly synonomous are few , yet it is often the case that one word of similar meaning may be substituted in a sentence for another , without materially altering the idea intended to be expressed . Thus ...
... kind just enumerated , the words strictly synonomous are few , yet it is often the case that one word of similar meaning may be substituted in a sentence for another , without materially altering the idea intended to be expressed . Thus ...
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Termos e frases comuns
accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty called Catachresis cents character clause comma composition compound sentence derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind lady 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 remarkable rules Saxon sense Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit student style syllable tautology tence thing thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Página 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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 291 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Página 20 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Página 397 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Página 235 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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 129 - Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that...
Página 170 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Página 120 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the...