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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... different departments , have been carried through the work , it has been found peculiar- ly well adapted to the important objects for which it was compiled . He believes it is not PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS Capital Letters PART SPELLING.
... different departments , have been carried through the work , it has been found peculiar- ly well adapted to the important objects for which it was compiled . He believes it is not PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS Capital Letters PART SPELLING.
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... year to year . Watertown , January 2 , 1846 . CONTENTS . PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS SECT . I. Capital Letters PART iv PREFACE . Spelling, how best learned SECT I Beauty and Sublimity in Nature II Beautiful and Sublime in Writing.
... year to year . Watertown , January 2 , 1846 . CONTENTS . PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS SECT . I. Capital Letters PART iv PREFACE . Spelling, how best learned SECT I Beauty and Sublimity in Nature II Beautiful and Sublime in Writing.
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... OBSERVATIONS SECT . I. Capital Letters PART I. I. SPELLING . II . Spelling , how best learned · II . PUNCTUATION . Remarks on its Importance and Necessity III . USE OF WORDS . SECT . I. Elliptical Sentences II . Words to form Sentences ...
... OBSERVATIONS SECT . I. Capital Letters PART I. I. SPELLING . II . Spelling , how best learned · II . PUNCTUATION . Remarks on its Importance and Necessity III . USE OF WORDS . SECT . I. Elliptical Sentences II . Words to form Sentences ...
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... 317 319 321 322 324 . 327 327 329 • • 331 XI . Rules of Method in the Pursuit and Communication of XII . Dofects of Dr. Johnson's Style of Writing PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS THE OCCASION FOR THIS WORK . LONG experience CONTENTS . vii.
... 317 319 321 322 324 . 327 327 329 • • 331 XI . Rules of Method in the Pursuit and Communication of XII . Dofects of Dr. Johnson's Style of Writing PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS THE OCCASION FOR THIS WORK . LONG experience CONTENTS . vii.
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... OBSERVATIONS THE OCCASION FOR THIS WORK . LONG experience in teaching has convinced the compiler tha aone of the numerous works known to him on the subject of Rhetoric and Composition are sufficiently adapted to a large class of ...
... OBSERVATIONS THE OCCASION FOR THIS WORK . LONG experience in teaching has convinced the compiler tha aone of the numerous works known to him on the subject of Rhetoric and Composition are sufficiently adapted to a large class of ...
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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?