Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... feeling or great earnest- ness is to be expressed . In exclamative sentences the verb is frequently omitted ; as , " What a terrible crime ! " This is equivalent to , “ What a terrible crime this is ! " To express this idea in the de ...
... feeling or great earnest- ness is to be expressed . In exclamative sentences the verb is frequently omitted ; as , " What a terrible crime ! " This is equivalent to , “ What a terrible crime this is ! " To express this idea in the de ...
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... feeling infinite , so felt In solitude , when we are least alone . 32. Brunswick's fated chieftain sat within a niche of that high wall . 33. I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities , a still and quiet conscience . 34. I ...
... feeling infinite , so felt In solitude , when we are least alone . 32. Brunswick's fated chieftain sat within a niche of that high wall . 33. I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities , a still and quiet conscience . 34. I ...
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... feelings . EXERCISE XXXVIII . DIRECTION.Vary the following by substituting euphemisms for the direct statements : 1. He is a very dirty fellow . 2. Major André was hanged , although he earnestly requested that he might be shot . 3. I ...
... feelings . EXERCISE XXXVIII . DIRECTION.Vary the following by substituting euphemisms for the direct statements : 1. He is a very dirty fellow . 2. Major André was hanged , although he earnestly requested that he might be shot . 3. I ...
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... feeling , good or bad . It once had this meaning . Three centuries ago a man could speak of resenting a benefit , as well as resenting an injury . The use of later times restricts the word to the single meaning ; hence " resent " is now ...
... feeling , good or bad . It once had this meaning . Three centuries ago a man could speak of resenting a benefit , as well as resenting an injury . The use of later times restricts the word to the single meaning ; hence " resent " is now ...
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... feels cold " ; " Her smiles amid the blushes love- lier show . " No cultivated person would say , " She is beau- tifully , ” or , “ She seems beautifully , " yet these phrases are no more improper than , " She looks beautifully . " We ...
... feels cold " ; " Her smiles amid the blushes love- lier show . " No cultivated person would say , " She is beau- tifully , ” or , “ She seems beautifully , " yet these phrases are no more improper than , " She looks beautifully . " We ...
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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