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 páginas |
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... importance of attention to the subject of composition thus much may be said ; that there are few individuals , in any station of life , to whom ease and fluency in writing are not valuable acquisitions . All who are engaged in ...
... importance of attention to the subject of composition thus much may be said ; that there are few individuals , in any station of life , to whom ease and fluency in writing are not valuable acquisitions . All who are engaged in ...
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... important improvements in the plan , the ar- rangement , and the materials , by which he thinks its value as an Aid to Composition is greatly enhanced . The subject of Descrip- tion in particular has been considerably extended and ...
... important improvements in the plan , the ar- rangement , and the materials , by which he thinks its value as an Aid to Composition is greatly enhanced . The subject of Descrip- tion in particular has been considerably extended and ...
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... important that every writer be careful to use the proper word to express the idea which he wishes to communicate ; and when he is required to use a word , that he endeavor thereby to express no other idea than that , which the word is ...
... important that every writer be careful to use the proper word to express the idea which he wishes to communicate ; and when he is required to use a word , that he endeavor thereby to express no other idea than that , which the word is ...
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... important purposes . Have a tendency to preserve . Withdraws his propitious light . However base or unworthy . Is the emblem of . How boundless . The tender assiduities of friendship . Irregular projecting rocks . Was peculiarly dear ...
... important purposes . Have a tendency to preserve . Withdraws his propitious light . However base or unworthy . Is the emblem of . How boundless . The tender assiduities of friendship . Irregular projecting rocks . Was peculiarly dear ...
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... importance of correct punctuation may be seen by the following extract from the London Times of September , 1818 . " The contract lately made for lighting the town of Liverpool , during the ensuing year , has been thrown void by the ...
... importance of correct punctuation may be seen by the following extract from the London Times of September , 1818 . " The contract lately made for lighting the town of Liverpool , during the ensuing year , has been thrown void by the ...
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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 Julius Cæsar 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 thou thought tion Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Página 127 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes 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 enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Página 402 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Página 403 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Página 399 - But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Página 403 - 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.
Página 294 - ... 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. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) — The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 129 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Página 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing...
Página 292 - Death? perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. but Knowledge to their eyes her ample page rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll ; 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: full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on...
Página 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.