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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... 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 to the mill ...
... 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 to the mill ...
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... thing , -has he been trained ? Henry . O yes ; he is a very valuable animal . Unclo would not sell him at any price . He is an excellent water- dog , and knows more than many boys of his 12 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... thing , -has he been trained ? Henry . O yes ; he is a very valuable animal . Unclo would not sell him at any price . He is an excellent water- dog , and knows more than many boys of his 12 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... things from the water , and is also well trained for hunting . Charles . He is a water - dog , then , is he not ... thing else he does . The reason is , that , one day , my little brother , George , was standing on a kind of wharf ...
... things from the water , and is also well trained for hunting . Charles . He is a water - dog , then , is he not ... thing else he does . The reason is , that , one day , my little brother , George , was standing on a kind of wharf ...
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... things clad . The melancholy days have come , the saddest of the year , Of wailing winds , and naked woods , and meadows brown and sere , Heaped in the hollows of the grove , the withered leaves lie dead . They rustle to the eddying ...
... things clad . The melancholy days have come , the saddest of the year , Of wailing winds , and naked woods , and meadows brown and sere , Heaped in the hollows of the grove , the withered leaves lie dead . They rustle to the eddying ...
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... things , not only in professed descriptions of the scenery , but in frequent allusions to natural objects , which ... thing should be just as it was when he left . In the trees , there was a melancholy gusty sound . and the night was ...
... things , not only in professed descriptions of the scenery , but in frequent allusions to natural objects , which ... thing should be just as it was when he left . In the trees , there was a melancholy gusty sound . and the night was ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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.