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, 1847 - 429 sider |
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... kind of black cloud , hovering over the field . After taking a short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties ...
... kind of black cloud , hovering over the field . After taking a short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties ...
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... kind of wharf , built of stones , near the bathing place , and , happening to stoop over too far to look at some eels , that were gliding through the water below , he lost his balance and fell in . Nobody was near but Guido , and he ...
... kind of wharf , built of stones , near the bathing place , and , happening to stoop over too far to look at some eels , that were gliding through the water below , he lost his balance and fell in . Nobody was near but Guido , and he ...
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... kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used on the word alone , becomes a question . " Pleased thou shalt hear , and thou alóne shalt hear ? " But , if the grave accent be placed on the word ...
... kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used on the word alone , becomes a question . " Pleased thou shalt hear , and thou alóne shalt hear ? " But , if the grave accent be placed on the word ...
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... Hex , Hexa , six . Homo , of one kind . Hydro , water . Hyper , over . In , Im , Il , not , with an adjec- tive , into , with a verb , on . Inter , among . ALPHABETICAL SYNOPSIS OF AFFIXES . 36 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... Hex , Hexa , six . Homo , of one kind . Hydro , water . Hyper , over . In , Im , Il , not , with an adjec- tive , into , with a verb , on . Inter , among . ALPHABETICAL SYNOPSIS OF AFFIXES . 36 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... kind just enumerated , the words strictly synonomous are few , yet it is often the case that one word of similar meaning may be substituted in a sentence for another , without materially altering the idea intended to be expressed . Thus ...
... kind just enumerated , the words strictly synonomous are few , yet it is often the case that one word of similar meaning may be substituted in a sentence for another , without materially altering the idea intended to be expressed . Thus ...
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1851 |
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Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades, Embracing ... Richard Green Parker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1849 |
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45 cents 90 cents accent acute accent admiration adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes ancient Antonomasia beauty called Catachresis character CHARLES ANTHON 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 grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart HISTORY honor idea imagination influence kind language Latin Latin language letter literary literature look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia 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 thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Side 20 - Not Arrive sooner ? were you necessarily Detained ? daughter of faith, Awake! Arise ! Illume the Dread Unknown, The chaos of The tomb. the lord My pasture Shall Prepare, and Feed Me With A shepherd's care. in Every Clime Adored, father of all in Every Age, Jehovah, Jove, or lord by Saint, by savage, and By sage,
Side 121 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to
Side 286 - Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ? Perhaps, in this neglected spot, is laid Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre: Some heart, once pregnant with celestial fire; But Knowledge to their eyes her ample
Side 287 - Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learnt to stray: Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Some frail memorial, still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked,
Side 287 - Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ;— 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 name. Far from the
Side 286 - with the spoils of time, did ne'er uuroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear; The little tyrant of his fields
Side 98 - 'T la not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo of the sense." ONOMATOPOEIA. Onomatopoeia, or Onomatopy, consists in the formation of words in such a manner that the sound shall imitate the sense.
Side 316 - reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature." In the latter of these two periods a member is out of its place.
Side 98 - the expression of an idea, convey, by their sound, some resemblance to the subject which they express, as in the following lines: The "whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. * Of a similar character, and nearly of equal merit, are those sentences or expressions which
Side 287 - unlettered Muse, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned;— Left the warm precincts of the cheerful