Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & brothers, 1851 - 429 sider |
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... saw a man severely beating a horse . I stopped a moment to ascertain the cause ; and perceived that one of the wheels of the wagon had sunk deep in the mire , and the poor animal was exerting 4 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . Events,
... saw a man severely beating a horse . I stopped a moment to ascertain the cause ; and perceived that one of the wheels of the wagon had sunk deep in the mire , and the poor animal was exerting 4 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . Events,
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... cause of my falling in with an old man and a boy , who were cutting and piling up turf for fuel ; and I had a good deal of talk with them , about the manner of preparing the turf , and the price it sells at . They gave me , too , a ...
... cause of my falling in with an old man and a boy , who were cutting and piling up turf for fuel ; and I had a good deal of talk with them , about the manner of preparing the turf , and the price it sells at . They gave me , too , a ...
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... cause neither of them could tell . In the little hollow that lay between the grave of their father , whose shroud was haply not yet still from the fall of dust to dust , and of their mother long since dead , as the brothers composedly ...
... cause neither of them could tell . In the little hollow that lay between the grave of their father , whose shroud was haply not yet still from the fall of dust to dust , and of their mother long since dead , as the brothers composedly ...
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... cause , least understood , who All my Sense Confined ( confinedst ) , to Know But This , That thou Art good and That myself Am Blind . yet Gavest me In this Dark Estate , & c . the language of Many of the european nations was derived ...
... cause , least understood , who All my Sense Confined ( confinedst ) , to Know But This , That thou Art good and That myself Am Blind . yet Gavest me In this Dark Estate , & c . the language of Many of the european nations was derived ...
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... cause , and it enters , in some form , into the composition of more than five hundred of our English words . The word pono , and its supine positum , furnish 250 words ; plico , 200 ; fero and latum , 198 ; specio , 177 ; mitto and ...
... cause , and it enters , in some form , into the composition of more than five hundred of our English words . The word pono , and its supine positum , furnish 250 words ; plico , 200 ; fero and latum , 198 ; specio , 177 ; mitto and ...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1847 |
Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1850 |
Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades, Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1849 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
accent acute accent admiration adverb Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound sentence connexion derived earth effect English English language Example 2d exercise expression father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently genius give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination influence kind labor language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral Muslin nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs Philosophical phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remark rule Saxon sense Sheep extra signifies sometimes sound spirit student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
Populære avsnitt
Side 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Side 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Side 294 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Side 293 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Side 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Side 401 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Side 402 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Side 146 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Side 293 - Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Side 148 - And besides this, giving all diligence, ADD to your faith virtue; AND to virtue knowledge; AND to knowledge temperance; AND to temperance patience; AND to patience godliness; AND to godliness brotherly kindness; AND to brotherly kindness charity.