The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for RhetoricS.C. Griggs and Company, 1884 - 174 стор. |
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The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric Lucy A. Chittenden Повний перегляд - 1891 |
The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric Lucy A. Chittenden Повний перегляд - 1884 |
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Adam Smith amphithea antecedent birds breath Bregenz bright child Christmas pie clause coach comma Complimentary Close Congress of Ryswick cried Crodunk dear dependent clause DEVELOPMENT Dick door e'en emphatic Exercise expression eyes face fair father faulty examples fear flowers Flynn gate Gilpin gold Hamblin hand head heard heart heaven horse interrogative John Gilpin king ladies Lake Constance land letter light Little white Lily look Lord maid master meadow mean METONYMY morning mountains Murillo nest never night noble o'er omitted Palmyra paragraph pearls of dew PHOEBE CARY phrase plain fully poem Principle XV pronouns punctuation pupil Puss Queen REPRODUCTION ride river rode rose Sebastian seemed sentence simile singing leaves slave sleep steed stood story Swanage sweet tell thee thou thought tion told Tom Flynn TOPICAL OUTLINE Twas unto watch WILLIAM COWPER words young
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Сторінка 140 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Сторінка 161 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
Сторінка 162 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Сторінка 100 - And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Сторінка 155 - As night drew on, and, from the crest Of wooded knolls that ridged the west, The sun, a snow-blown traveller, sank From sight beneath the smothering bank, We piled, with care, our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam On...
Сторінка 73 - We may not live to the time, when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die, colonists ; die, slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may.
Сторінка 90 - Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he ? His fame soon spread around, He carries weight ! he rides a race ! Tis for a thousand pound...
Сторінка 154 - We reached the barn with merry din, And roused the prisoned brutes within. The old horse thrust his long head out, And grave with wonder gazed about ; The cock his lusty greeting said, And forth his speckled harem led...
Сторінка 162 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Сторінка 88 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear — Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will £11 the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.