Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... close to the hedge . The hedge is approached by a broad stepping - stone Beyond the hedge is a gate made of rough sticks . The gate leads to the cottage . At a short distance from the cottage , an excavation has been cut in the bank ...
... close to the hedge . The hedge is approached by a broad stepping - stone Beyond the hedge is a gate made of rough sticks . The gate leads to the cottage . At a short distance from the cottage , an excavation has been cut in the bank ...
Seite 97
... close of the winter , his machine was nearly completed . Its success was no longer doubtful . 3. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to a bullet . An arrow . This bullet or arrow pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani ...
... close of the winter , his machine was nearly completed . Its success was no longer doubtful . 3. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to a bullet . An arrow . This bullet or arrow pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani ...
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... close that fatal box For which she's ever on the watch Some glance to catch Suspiciously directed to its locks ; And Envy , too , no doubt with silent winking At her green , greedy orbs , no single minute Withdrawn from it , was hard a ...
... close that fatal box For which she's ever on the watch Some glance to catch Suspiciously directed to its locks ; And Envy , too , no doubt with silent winking At her green , greedy orbs , no single minute Withdrawn from it , was hard a ...
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... close connec- tion . 11. James deserved reproof far more than John did . 12. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing to waft me from distrac- tion . 13. She pined in thought . 14. There is no malice in this burning coal . 15. Socrates ...
... close connec- tion . 11. James deserved reproof far more than John did . 12. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing to waft me from distrac- tion . 13. She pined in thought . 14. There is no malice in this burning coal . 15. Socrates ...
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... close attention to style is of the utmost importance . All know that the reception of a truth is owing , not wholly to the truth itself , but partly to the manner in which it is presented . The same facts which , when stated by one ...
... close attention to style is of the utmost importance . All know that the reception of a truth is owing , not wholly to the truth itself , but partly to the manner in which it is presented . The same facts which , when stated by one ...
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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