Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... side ? Four brown sparrows , the cunning things , Feathered on back and breast and wings , Proud with the dignity plumage brings , Opening their four mouths wide . Stooping lower to scan my prize , Watching their motions CONCORD . ཙ 91.
... side ? Four brown sparrows , the cunning things , Feathered on back and breast and wings , Proud with the dignity plumage brings , Opening their four mouths wide . Stooping lower to scan my prize , Watching their motions CONCORD . ཙ 91.
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... side of a hill . They are oftener at the bottom of a hill . Down this hill a narrow road leads . A rude , single - arched stone bridge . Here a shallow stream may be seen flowing rapidly . The stream now and then " stickles " over a ...
... side of a hill . They are oftener at the bottom of a hill . Down this hill a narrow road leads . A rude , single - arched stone bridge . Here a shallow stream may be seen flowing rapidly . The stream now and then " stickles " over a ...
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... side . 8. Vast motives press upon us for lofty efforts . 9. That a nation could be thus deluded is wonderful . 10. The music of those evening bells , those evening bells , tells many a tale . II . It is a bitter thing to look into ...
... side . 8. Vast motives press upon us for lofty efforts . 9. That a nation could be thus deluded is wonderful . 10. The music of those evening bells , those evening bells , tells many a tale . II . It is a bitter thing to look into ...
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... of authority is on the side of always using from . " I differ , as to this matter , from Bishop Lowth . " - Cobbett . 5. Wearies , for is wearied ; as , " One wearies of such nonsense . " Weary is a transitive verb , having STYLE . 141.
... of authority is on the side of always using from . " I differ , as to this matter , from Bishop Lowth . " - Cobbett . 5. Wearies , for is wearied ; as , " One wearies of such nonsense . " Weary is a transitive verb , having STYLE . 141.
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... side . Interpose authority . Pursue a course . Turn to account . Serve for a warning . Bear malice . Profess principles . Cultivate acquaintance . Pass over in silence . EXERCISE XLII . DIRECTION . — Substitute appropriate expressions ...
... side . Interpose authority . Pursue a course . Turn to account . Serve for a warning . Bear malice . Profess principles . Cultivate acquaintance . Pass over in silence . EXERCISE XLII . DIRECTION . — Substitute appropriate expressions ...
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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