Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... poetry , where the utmost freedom is allowed for the sake of rhyme and meter . The use of this order in prose is mainly for emphasis ; and , being a feature more natural to impassioned style , it should be used sparingly , and only when ...
... poetry , where the utmost freedom is allowed for the sake of rhyme and meter . The use of this order in prose is mainly for emphasis ; and , being a feature more natural to impassioned style , it should be used sparingly , and only when ...
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... poetry : I wis in all the Senate There was no heart so bold . - Macaulay . Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight ; Ah , me ! in sooth he was a shameless wight , Childe Harold was he hight ...
... poetry : I wis in all the Senate There was no heart so bold . - Macaulay . Whilom in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth Who ne in virtue's ways did take delight ; Ah , me ! in sooth he was a shameless wight , Childe Harold was he hight ...
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... poet and journalist Bryant used to say that he never felt the temptation to use a foreign word without being able to find in English a word that expressed his meaning with more exactness and felicity . There are , however , certain ...
... poet and journalist Bryant used to say that he never felt the temptation to use a foreign word without being able to find in English a word that expressed his meaning with more exactness and felicity . There are , however , certain ...
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... poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven . doth ( b ) In His face the 12. Persuade - Convince . house is guilty of the sin he of His Father's glory shine . ( a ) He that him to . a man to rob a ...
... poet's eye , in a fine frenzy rolling , from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven . doth ( b ) In His face the 12. Persuade - Convince . house is guilty of the sin he of His Father's glory shine . ( a ) He that him to . a man to rob a ...
Seite 175
... not because they are foreign , but because they are not current . " I observe , " says Emerson , " that all distinguished poetry is written in the oldest and sim- plest English words . There is a point , above STYLE . 175.
... not because they are foreign , but because they are not current . " I observe , " says Emerson , " that all distinguished poetry is written in the oldest and sim- plest English words . There is a point , above STYLE . 175.
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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