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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... particular attention : " Sumite materiam qui scribitis æquam " Viribus . Or , in the translation of Mr. Francis : " Examine well , ye writers , weigh with care , What suits your genius , what your strength will bear . ' ADVERTISEMENT TO ...
... particular attention : " Sumite materiam qui scribitis æquam " Viribus . Or , in the translation of Mr. Francis : " Examine well , ye writers , weigh with care , What suits your genius , what your strength will bear . ' ADVERTISEMENT TO ...
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... particular has been considerably extended and enriched , from sources not within his reach in the original preparation of the volume . The examples and exercises in various parts of the work have been much improved by the rejection of ...
... particular has been considerably extended and enriched , from sources not within his reach in the original preparation of the volume . The examples and exercises in various parts of the work have been much improved by the rejection of ...
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... particular notice of them . Tutor . Why not ? Robert . I do not know . I did not care about them ; and I made the best of my way home . Tutor . That would have been right , if you had been sent on a mes- sage ; but , as you only walked ...
... particular notice of them . Tutor . Why not ? Robert . I do not know . I did not care about them ; and I made the best of my way home . Tutor . That would have been right , if you had been sent on a mes- sage ; but , as you only walked ...
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... particular part of the curious workmanship . But , before Francesco reached the gallery , the lovely and unfortunate girl had ceased to breathe in that closely shut chest . Many times they passed the gallery , but they heeded not the ...
... particular part of the curious workmanship . But , before Francesco reached the gallery , the lovely and unfortunate girl had ceased to breathe in that closely shut chest . Many times they passed the gallery , but they heeded not the ...
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... Particular attention must be given also to the place of the pronouns who , which , what , whose , & c . , and of all those particles which express the connexion of the parts of speech . The following sentence is faulty in this respect ...
... Particular attention must be given also to the place of the pronouns who , which , what , whose , & c . , and of all those particles which express the connexion of the parts of speech . The following sentence is faulty in this respect ...
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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.