Elements of Composition and Rhetoric: With Copious Exercises in Both Criticism and ConstructionAmerican Book Company, 1889 - 416 Seiten |
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... English under the parts of speech . 41. What should we gain by it that we should speedily become as poor as them ? 42. The richness of her arms and apparel were conspicuous in the foremost rank . 43. The Prince was apprehensive that ...
... English under the parts of speech . 41. What should we gain by it that we should speedily become as poor as them ? 42. The richness of her arms and apparel were conspicuous in the foremost rank . 43. The Prince was apprehensive that ...
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... English line the Irish exiles sprang . 16. No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few . On fame's eternal camping - ground Their silent tents are spread . 17. He goes onward , toiling , rejoicing , sorrowing through ...
... English line the Irish exiles sprang . 16. No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few . On fame's eternal camping - ground Their silent tents are spread . 17. He goes onward , toiling , rejoicing , sorrowing through ...
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... English scepter . 26. Palaces and cottages alike must fall . EXERCISE XL . DIRECTION.- N. - Recast each of the following sentences , expressing the sense in as many different ways as possible : I. She resolved to become entirely free ...
... English scepter . 26. Palaces and cottages alike must fall . EXERCISE XL . DIRECTION.- N. - Recast each of the following sentences , expressing the sense in as many different ways as possible : I. She resolved to become entirely free ...
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... English language accessions of beauty and strength in every age from Chaucer to the present . So long as the language has life this process must continue . But the best course for the young writer or speaker , striving after purity of ...
... English language accessions of beauty and strength in every age from Chaucer to the present . So long as the language has life this process must continue . But the best course for the young writer or speaker , striving after purity of ...
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... English words is small . The late 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 ...
... English words is small . The late 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 ...
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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