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 Seiten |
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... common conversations . To cultivate the habits of observation , the following dia- logue , from the pen of Dr. Aikin , is presented ; with the recommendation that it be read to the young student , or that he be required to read it ...
... common conversations . To cultivate the habits of observation , the following dia- logue , from the pen of Dr. Aikin , is presented ; with the recommendation that it be read to the young student , or that he be required to read it ...
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... common snakes , but this is thicker in proportion , and of a darker color than they are . Tutor . True . Vipers frequent those turfy , boggy grounds pretty much , and I have known several turf - cutters bitten by them . William . They ...
... common snakes , but this is thicker in proportion , and of a darker color than they are . Tutor . True . Vipers frequent those turfy , boggy grounds pretty much , and I have known several turf - cutters bitten by them . William . They ...
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... Common . Charles . What is the name of that disease which people have who are bitten by mad dogs ? Henry . It is called hydrophobia , which is a Greek word , and means " fear of water . " Dogs , when they are mad , can- not bear the ...
... Common . Charles . What is the name of that disease which people have who are bitten by mad dogs ? Henry . It is called hydrophobia , which is a Greek word , and means " fear of water . " Dogs , when they are mad , can- not bear the ...
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... common , or abstract , are joined to their subjects by means of connecting words , but without a verb , the collection is called a phrase . As , The extent of the city ; The path up the mountain ; The house by the side of the river . If ...
... common , or abstract , are joined to their subjects by means of connecting words , but without a verb , the collection is called a phrase . As , The extent of the city ; The path up the mountain ; The house by the side of the river . If ...
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... common clause , they are separated by semicolons ; as , " Wisdom has builded her house ; she hath hewn out her seven pillars ; she hath killed her beasts ; she hath mingled her wine ; 28 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... common clause , they are separated by semicolons ; as , " Wisdom has builded her house ; she hath hewn out her seven pillars ; she hath killed her beasts ; she hath mingled her wine ; 28 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accent acute accent adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence frequently give Grammar 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 tence thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Seite 372 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Seite 403 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Seite 237 - 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.
Seite 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 170 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Seite 403 - 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.
Seite 129 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; 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.
Seite 105 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Seite 321 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.