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 Seiten |
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... called a composition , they feel at a loss what to say . This arises from no inability to form ideas , nor from want of words to express them ; but rather from a vague apprehension that something is required of them , which they have ...
... called a composition , they feel at a loss what to say . This arises from no inability to form ideas , nor from want of words to express them ; but rather from a vague apprehension that something is required of them , which they have ...
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... called , from their color and size , the Eng- lish parrot . William . When I got upon the open heath , how charming it was ! The air seemed so fresh , and the prospect on every side so free and un- bounded ! Then it was all covered with ...
... called , from their color and size , the Eng- lish parrot . William . When I got upon the open heath , how charming it was ! The air seemed so fresh , and the prospect on every side so free and un- bounded ! Then it was all covered with ...
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... called Camp - mount , there might , probably , be some re- mains of ditches and mounds , with which I have read that camps were surrounded . And I really believe I discovered something of that sort running round one side of the mount ...
... called Camp - mount , there might , probably , be some re- mains of ditches and mounds , with which I have read that camps were surrounded . And I really believe I discovered something of that sort running round one side of the mount ...
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... called spearing of eels . William . While I was looking at him , a heron came flying over my head , with his large flapping wings . He alighted at the next turn of the river , and I crept softly behind the bank to watch his motions . He ...
... called spearing of eels . William . While I was looking at him , a heron came flying over my head , with his large flapping wings . He alighted at the next turn of the river , and I crept softly behind the bank to watch his motions . He ...
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... called hydrophobia , which is a Greek word , and means " fear of water . " Dogs , when they are mad , can- not bear the sight of water ; they will not drink ; and there- fore , whenever a dog will drink , you may be sure that he is not ...
... called hydrophobia , which is a Greek word , and means " fear of water . " Dogs , when they are mad , can- not bear the sight of water ; they will not drink ; and there- fore , whenever a dog will drink , you may be sure that he is not ...
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accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty cæsura 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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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
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 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.
Seite 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.