Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... fair knowledge of the principles and graces of Rhetoric . While the discussion of simple , complex , and compound sentences is the province of Grammar , —a subject usually com- pleted before that of Rhetoric is begun , -it has been ...
... fair knowledge of the principles and graces of Rhetoric . While the discussion of simple , complex , and compound sentences is the province of Grammar , —a subject usually com- pleted before that of Rhetoric is begun , -it has been ...
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... Fair . 10. I have experienced nothing that was not kind at his hands . II . Hope , which is the star of life , never sets . 12. When the boy had completed his task , he went to play . 13. He has lost the book which I gave him . 14. The ...
... Fair . 10. I have experienced nothing that was not kind at his hands . II . Hope , which is the star of life , never sets . 12. When the boy had completed his task , he went to play . 13. He has lost the book which I gave him . 14. The ...
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... fair weather , they say ! " And the grandam moaned , as if the sea Were beating her life out , " Woe is me ! " The heart of the dove - eyed little girl Began in her throat to rise , And she says , pulling golden curl upon curl All over ...
... fair weather , they say ! " And the grandam moaned , as if the sea Were beating her life out , " Woe is me ! " The heart of the dove - eyed little girl Began in her throat to rise , And she says , pulling golden curl upon curl All over ...
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... fair Like a crown , on the old gray head . " So , child , " says the grandam - keeping on With her thoughts— " your book does n't tell about John ? " " No , ma'am , it tells of a fairy old Who lived in a daffodil bell , And who had a ...
... fair Like a crown , on the old gray head . " So , child , " says the grandam - keeping on With her thoughts— " your book does n't tell about John ? " " No , ma'am , it tells of a fairy old Who lived in a daffodil bell , And who had a ...
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... , Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow , Demurest of the tabby kind , The pensive Selima , reclined , Gazed on the lake below . Her conscious tail her joy declared ; The fair round TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS . 73.
... , Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow , Demurest of the tabby kind , The pensive Selima , reclined , Gazed on the lake below . Her conscious tail her joy declared ; The fair round TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS . 73.
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acatalectic accented adjective clause adverb adverbial clause Anapestic beautiful birds called comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction conjunctive adverb connected Dactylic dependent clause Dimeter DIRECTION discourse earth English examples EXERCISE expression eyes feeling feet flowers following sentences give hath heard heart heaven hence honor hope iambic iambic pentameter Inchcape Inchcape Rock interrogation kind king language letter light live look Lord meaning meter Metonymy mind modifies Monometer nature never night noun o'er object paragraph participle person phrases poem poetry predicate principal pronoun proposition prose punctuation Rhetoric rhyme RULE sail Saxon sense simple sentences snow sometimes soul sound speak stanza statement style sublime subordinate conjunction sweet syllables Synecdoche T. B. ALDRICH tences tetrameter thee things thou thought tion trees trochaic truth verb verse voice wind words writer