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, 1851 - 429 pages |
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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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Page 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...
Page 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 294 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 293 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Page 146 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Page 293 - Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 148 - 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.