Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... trees . 6. The sun has thrown its shadow upon the pewter dial two hours beyond the meridian time . 7. Nations , therefore , have fittingly rejoiced in every century since the creation , in the joyfulness of harvest . 8. Then , standing ...
... trees . 6. The sun has thrown its shadow upon the pewter dial two hours beyond the meridian time . 7. Nations , therefore , have fittingly rejoiced in every century since the creation , in the joyfulness of harvest . 8. Then , standing ...
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... tree . They planted it in their youth . It is the large , beautiful sycamore . It is seen in passing along the Hamilton turnpike . It is seen in passing from Col- lege Hill to Mt. Pleasant . These places are in Ohio . 4. It was an idle ...
... tree . They planted it in their youth . It is the large , beautiful sycamore . It is seen in passing along the Hamilton turnpike . It is seen in passing from Col- lege Hill to Mt. Pleasant . These places are in Ohio . 4. It was an idle ...
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... trees like a continuous orchard . 7. The Spaniards found the native tribes , everywhere on the route , in a state of cultivation beyond that of nomadic hordes , with fixed places of abode and a liberal subsistence from the tillage of ...
... trees like a continuous orchard . 7. The Spaniards found the native tribes , everywhere on the route , in a state of cultivation beyond that of nomadic hordes , with fixed places of abode and a liberal subsistence from the tillage of ...
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... trees could talk , in a country far over the sea , there was a beautiful fountain . 4. If I were a prince , I would hire or buy a private literary teapot , in which I would steep all the leaves of new books that promised well . 5. In ...
... trees could talk , in a country far over the sea , there was a beautiful fountain . 4. If I were a prince , I would hire or buy a private literary teapot , in which I would steep all the leaves of new books that promised well . 5. In ...
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... tree , where [ = and there ] it sat chat- tering to me . While such constructions are frequently met with even in good authors , it is better to avoid them . Modern writers seldom use relative pronouns or conjunctive adverbs to in ...
... tree , where [ = and there ] it sat chat- tering to me . While such constructions are frequently met with even in good authors , it is better to avoid them . Modern writers seldom use relative pronouns or conjunctive adverbs to in ...
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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