Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples, for the Use of Common Schools and AcademiesHarper & Brothers, 1862 - 333 Seiten |
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... connection , accuracy , and completeness in habits of thought , than to habituate ourselves to write upon the subject of investigation ? Is there any better mode of guarding ourselves against vagueness und obscurity in the language we ...
... connection , accuracy , and completeness in habits of thought , than to habituate ourselves to write upon the subject of investigation ? Is there any better mode of guarding ourselves against vagueness und obscurity in the language we ...
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... connected with this subject , will be found im- bodied in this brief detail , and the different characters of the English language and literature , at different periods . carefully pointed out The present work is designed as a sequel to ...
... connected with this subject , will be found im- bodied in this brief detail , and the different characters of the English language and literature , at different periods . carefully pointed out The present work is designed as a sequel to ...
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... connection with the folllow- ing Parts , which consist of matter for recitation , except a few chapters , which also embrace exercises for the pen . It is recom- mended to teachers , accordingly , to require a written exercise almost ...
... connection with the folllow- ing Parts , which consist of matter for recitation , except a few chapters , which also embrace exercises for the pen . It is recom- mended to teachers , accordingly , to require a written exercise almost ...
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... such as ought to be connected , and to keep apart such as have no mutual dependance . The same words , by means of different modes of punctu- ation , may be made to express two meanings exactly PART 1. ] 19 PUNCTUATION PUNCTUATION.
... such as ought to be connected , and to keep apart such as have no mutual dependance . The same words , by means of different modes of punctu- ation , may be made to express two meanings exactly PART 1. ] 19 PUNCTUATION PUNCTUATION.
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... connection of his thoughts , and forming the same views of things which he has formed . Yet the man who is unacquainted with Nature can never be a man of taste , because he can not know whether the production of art resemble Nature or ...
... connection of his thoughts , and forming the same views of things which he has formed . Yet the man who is unacquainted with Nature can never be a man of taste , because he can not know whether the production of art resemble Nature or ...
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Seite 243 - And there was mounting in hot haste; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Seite 242 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Seite 254 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Seite 243 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
Seite 218 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 80 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Seite 163 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Seite 216 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Seite 242 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Seite 211 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?