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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 use 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 use of parentheses as much as is possible . The hyphen is a small mark placed between the parts of a ...
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Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades Richard Green Parker Visualização completa - 1857 |
Termos e frases comuns
accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Anthon's Antonomasia beauty called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound sentence connexion derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind labor language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophy phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remark rule Saxon sense Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Página 102 - 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 402 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 290 - Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 122 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Página 127 - In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who, before he became an author, had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute...
Página 289 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 146 - 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.
Página 400 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 290 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Página 236 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.