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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... verbs , expressing an action , by the change of the letter s to c , become practice , and advice , which are nouns . Again , the words comment ' , increase ' , are verbs ; while com'- ment , in'crease , & c . are nouns . In the use of ...
... verbs , expressing an action , by the change of the letter s to c , become practice , and advice , which are nouns . Again , the words comment ' , increase ' , are verbs ; while com'- ment , in'crease , & c . are nouns . In the use of ...
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... 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 the connecting word be a verb , the assemblage of words There are about sixty words in the ...
... 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 the connecting word be a verb , the assemblage of words There are about sixty words in the ...
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... verb is a verb that has a subject or nominative . Verbs in the infinitive mood , or the participle , as they have no nominative , are not con- sidered finite verbs . boy . Here man is the subject , struck the 18 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION ...
... verb is a verb that has a subject or nominative . Verbs in the infinitive mood , or the participle , as they have no nominative , are not con- sidered finite verbs . boy . Here man is the subject , struck the 18 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION ...
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... verb , and boy the object . Some verbs , however , admit no object , after them , and the sentence will then consist of only two principal parts , the subject and the verb . All the other parts of a sentence are merely adjuncts ...
... verb , and boy the object . Some verbs , however , admit no object , after them , and the sentence will then consist of only two principal parts , the subject and the verb . All the other parts of a sentence are merely adjuncts ...
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... verb and the objective , with their respective adjuncts after it . This order , however , it is not necessary al- ways to preserve , but on the contrary the beauty and harmony of the sentence are often greatly increased by a departure ...
... verb and the objective , with their respective adjuncts after it . This order , however , it is not necessary al- ways to preserve , but on the contrary the beauty and harmony of the sentence are often greatly increased by a departure ...
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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.