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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... respect to the nature of its sub- jects , are the Narrative , the Descriptive , the Didactic , the Persuasive , the Pathetic , and the Argumentative . With regard to its form or style , it may be considered as concise or diffuse , as ...
... respect to the nature of its sub- jects , are the Narrative , the Descriptive , the Didactic , the Persuasive , the Pathetic , and the Argumentative . With regard to its form or style , it may be considered as concise or diffuse , as ...
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... respect to the cadence , or close of a sentence , care should be taken that it be not abrupt nor unpleasant . In order to give a sentence its proper close , the longest member and the fullest words should be reserved for the conclusion ...
... respect to the cadence , or close of a sentence , care should be taken that it be not abrupt nor unpleasant . In order to give a sentence its proper close , the longest member and the fullest words should be reserved for the conclusion ...
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... Respect . Graphic . Use . Caution . Create . Fac and Presume . Cite . Fine . Factum . * Separate . Commune . Scribe . Divide . Critic . Argue . Improve . False . Conceal . Correct . Sense . Profess . Fire . Reform . Lude . Succeed ...
... Respect . Graphic . Use . Caution . Create . Fac and Presume . Cite . Fine . Factum . * Separate . Commune . Scribe . Divide . Critic . Argue . Improve . False . Conceal . Correct . Sense . Profess . Fire . Reform . Lude . Succeed ...
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... respects a situation free from trouble , considered in itself ; peace , the same situa- tion with respect to any causes that might interrupt it ; calm , with regard to a disturbed situation going before or following it . A good man ...
... respects a situation free from trouble , considered in itself ; peace , the same situa- tion with respect to any causes that might interrupt it ; calm , with regard to a disturbed situation going before or following it . A good man ...
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... respects they resemble . Example 1st . " The lamb is tame in its disposition . " Here the word tame is incorrectly used for gentle ; tame- ness is produced by discipline ; gentleness belongs to the natural disposition . Example 2d ...
... respects they resemble . Example 1st . " The lamb is tame in its disposition . " Here the word tame is incorrectly used for gentle ; tame- ness is produced by discipline ; gentleness belongs to the natural disposition . Example 2d ...
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accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty c¿sura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound sentence connexion derived earth effect English English language 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 and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical 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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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.