Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... Nature was beautiful around him . He did not see them . He never looked up from the mud and filth . He sought treasure in them . He died a rich old man . He knew this fair earth , even up to his death , only as a dirty road . He thought ...
... Nature was beautiful around him . He did not see them . He never looked up from the mud and filth . He sought treasure in them . He died a rich old man . He knew this fair earth , even up to his death , only as a dirty road . He thought ...
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... nature . 10. If we repent of our good actions , what is left for our faults and follies ? II . You can not expect to do justice when you will not hear the ac- cused . 12. Your troops and your ships have made a vain and insulting parade ...
... nature . 10. If we repent of our good actions , what is left for our faults and follies ? II . You can not expect to do justice when you will not hear the ac- cused . 12. Your troops and your ships have made a vain and insulting parade ...
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... Nature's darling was laid in thy green lap . 6. Thou art no boding maid of divine skill . 7. Prepare the rich repast . 8. From every face He wipes off every tear . 9. Far , vague , and dim , the mountains swim . 10. The waves had gone ...
... Nature's darling was laid in thy green lap . 6. Thou art no boding maid of divine skill . 7. Prepare the rich repast . 8. From every face He wipes off every tear . 9. Far , vague , and dim , the mountains swim . 10. The waves had gone ...
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... Nature's make , the growth of centuries ; You could not deem its crowding spires a work of human art , They seemed to struggle lightward from a sturdy living heart . Not Nature's self more freely speaks in crystal or in oak , Than ...
... Nature's make , the growth of centuries ; You could not deem its crowding spires a work of human art , They seemed to struggle lightward from a sturdy living heart . Not Nature's self more freely speaks in crystal or in oak , Than ...
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... Nature crystallized slowly in granite tough ; The thick spires yearned towards the sky in quaint , harmonious lines , And in broad sunlight basked and slept , like a grove of blasted pines . Never did rock or stream or tree lay claim ...
... Nature crystallized slowly in granite tough ; The thick spires yearned towards the sky in quaint , harmonious lines , And in broad sunlight basked and slept , like a grove of blasted pines . Never did rock or stream or tree lay claim ...
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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