Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades : Embracing Specimens and Examples of of School and College Exercises and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & Brothers, 1852 - 429 páginas |
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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . The object of this lesson is to make the student acquainted with the constituent parts and members of sentences , both simple and compound . The exercises that are subjoined , AIDS TO ENGLISH ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . The object of this lesson is to make the student acquainted with the constituent parts and members of sentences , both simple and compound . The exercises that are subjoined , AIDS TO ENGLISH ...
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... truth , that the Creation is a Perpetual feast To the mind of a Good man . diligence , industry , and Proper improvement Of time , Are Material duties of the Young ; but the young Often Neglect These duties . how often shall my brother ...
... truth , that the Creation is a Perpetual feast To the mind of a Good man . diligence , industry , and Proper improvement Of time , Are Material duties of the Young ; but the young Often Neglect These duties . how often shall my brother ...
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... truth of poets admiration . Saint Peter is painted with the keys Paul with a sword Andrew with a cross James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff and a gourd bottle James the Less with a fuller's pole John with a cup and a winged serpent ...
... truth of poets admiration . Saint Peter is painted with the keys Paul with a sword Andrew with a cross James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff and a gourd bottle James the Less with a fuller's pole John with a cup and a winged serpent ...
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... truth is a plain and it is a safe path that of falsehood is a perplexing maze . Do not flatter yourself with the idea of enjoying perfect happiness for there is no such thing in the world . Were all books reduced to their quintessence ...
... truth is a plain and it is a safe path that of falsehood is a perplexing maze . Do not flatter yourself with the idea of enjoying perfect happiness for there is no such thing in the world . Were all books reduced to their quintessence ...
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... truth is , that no better reason can be given for the use or omission of the hyphen , than caprice . † The student who wishes to study this department of etymology , will find it more fully displayed in Horne Tooke's " Diversions of ...
... truth is , that no better reason can be given for the use or omission of the hyphen , than caprice . † The student who wishes to study this department of etymology , will find it more fully displayed in Horne Tooke's " Diversions of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Amphibrach amusement Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause composition consists derived division effects English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor hypermeter Iambic Iambus idea imagination influence kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary manner means mind moral Muslin nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia opinion participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose reason remarkable rules sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology tence theme thing thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue win the maid words writer young
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Página 98 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 362 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 252 - How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour: — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 98 - 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...
Página 252 - And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Página 254 - 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.
Página 364 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 99 - 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 the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
Página 364 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work...
Página 76 - Nor was she to be found ! Her father cried, " 'Tis but to make a trial of our love !" And filled his glass to all ; but his hand shook, And soon from guest to guest the panic spread.