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, 1850 - 429 sidor |
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... look at this thing and that ! I would rather walk alone . I dare say he is not got home yet . Tutor . Here he comes . Well , William , where have you been ? William . O , the pleasantest walk ! I went all over Broom - heath , and so up ...
... look at this thing and that ! I would rather walk alone . I dare say he is not got home yet . Tutor . Here he comes . Well , William , where have you been ? William . O , the pleasantest walk ! I went all over Broom - heath , and so up ...
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... look at a large flock of starlings , which kept flying about at no great distance . I could not tell , at first , what to make of them ; for they rose all together from the ground , as thick as a swarm of bees , and formed themselves ...
... look at a large flock of starlings , which kept flying about at no great distance . I could not tell , at first , what to make of them ; for they rose all together from the ground , as thick as a swarm of bees , and formed themselves ...
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... look at the boys , as they were playing in the street , and , finding that he could not see through the window , on account of the frost on the glass , he applied his warm tongue to one of the panes , and , licking the frost from the ...
... look at the boys , as they were playing in the street , and , finding that he could not see through the window , on account of the frost on the glass , he applied his warm tongue to one of the panes , and , licking the frost from the ...
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... , an ciently , in ancient times . Weaken , enfeeble , debilitate , enervate , invalidate . Unimportant , insignificant , immaterial , inconsiderable . See , perceive , observe , behold , look at AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 43.
... , an ciently , in ancient times . Weaken , enfeeble , debilitate , enervate , invalidate . Unimportant , insignificant , immaterial , inconsiderable . See , perceive , observe , behold , look at AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 43.
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... look at . Think , reflect , ponder , muse , imagine , suppose , believe deem , consider . * In the sentences which follow , it is required to change the words as in the following examples . The student will notice that every change of ...
... look at . Think , reflect , ponder , muse , imagine , suppose , believe deem , consider . * In the sentences which follow , it is required to change the words as in the following examples . The student will notice that every change of ...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1851 |
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accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty called Catachresis cents character clause comma composition compound sentence derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind lady 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 remarkable rules Saxon sense Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit student style syllable tautology tence thing thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Sida 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Sida 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...
Sida 291 - E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ' Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Sida 20 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Sida 397 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Sida 235 - 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.
Sida 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.
Sida 129 - 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. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller. Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert; that...
Sida 170 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds, That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of Ocean on his winding shore...
Sida 120 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the...