Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... possessed large forests . These forests were in all parts of England . The Conqueror was not content with these forests . He resolved to make a new forest . He decided to make it near Win- chester . Winchester was the usual place of his ...
... possessed large forests . These forests were in all parts of England . The Conqueror was not content with these forests . He resolved to make a new forest . He decided to make it near Win- chester . Winchester was the usual place of his ...
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... possessed considerable rank and fortune . They professed the Roman Catholic faith . They had with them a number of inferior adherents . They sailed in a vessel called The Ark and the Dove . The band was under the command of Leonard ...
... possessed considerable rank and fortune . They professed the Roman Catholic faith . They had with them a number of inferior adherents . They sailed in a vessel called The Ark and the Dove . The band was under the command of Leonard ...
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... possessed only two secrets for gov- erning to drain and to brutify its subjects ; hence . 6. These barbarous tribes meet only to attack and to destroy each other ; so that . . . 7. Infancy conforms to nobody ; so that . 8. The shadow of ...
... possessed only two secrets for gov- erning to drain and to brutify its subjects ; hence . 6. These barbarous tribes meet only to attack and to destroy each other ; so that . . . 7. Infancy conforms to nobody ; so that . 8. The shadow of ...
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... possessed . His look on me he bent . Lands he could measure , times and tides presage . 7. The noun precedes the adjective ; as , Across the meadows bare and brown . Hadst thou sent warning fair and true . Each wolf that dics in the ...
... possessed . His look on me he bent . Lands he could measure , times and tides presage . 7. The noun precedes the adjective ; as , Across the meadows bare and brown . Hadst thou sent warning fair and true . Each wolf that dics in the ...
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... possessed . The word " let " once meant to hinder ; but now it is used as equivalent to " allow . " " Edify " , originally signified to build up , as a house is built , but now it is applied only to mental improvement . " Station " was ...
... possessed . The word " let " once meant to hinder ; but now it is used as equivalent to " allow . " " Edify " , originally signified to build up , as a house is built , but now it is applied only to mental improvement . " Station " was ...
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accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected dependent clause DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet figure flowers following sentences give hand hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic pentameter idea Inchcape Inchcape Rock kind King language light live look Lord meaning metaphor Metonymy mind modifies nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme Richard Penderell RULE sail Saxon sense simile simple sentence snow sometimes soul sound speak speech statement stood style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees Trimeter trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer