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, 1845 - 429 стор. |
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... means an omission . The word apostrophe is derived from the Greek language , and signifies the turning away , or omission , of one letter or more . called , consist of four commas ; two inverted , 30 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... means an omission . The word apostrophe is derived from the Greek language , and signifies the turning away , or omission , of one letter or more . called , consist of four commas ; two inverted , 30 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... means to come against , or oppose . In a similar manner , we have the words prevent , invent , circum- vent , convent , and their derivatives . † * Some compound words are formed by the union of two other words ; as sea - water , semi ...
... means to come against , or oppose . In a similar manner , we have the words prevent , invent , circum- vent , convent , and their derivatives . † * Some compound words are formed by the union of two other words ; as sea - water , semi ...
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... mean to show the difference , & c . The word show may , in like manner , be changed into explain , point out , or ... mean- ing of the sentence . Such exercises as these give a command of language to the student , and are of great use as ...
... mean to show the difference , & c . The word show may , in like manner , be changed into explain , point out , or ... mean- ing of the sentence . Such exercises as these give a command of language to the student , and are of great use as ...
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... mean , may be substituted for design , without materially altering the sense , yet it must be understood , that the ... means be ever so ample , if he have not pru- dence , and talents fitted for business , he will hardly keep himself ...
... mean , may be substituted for design , without materially altering the sense , yet it must be understood , that the ... means be ever so ample , if he have not pru- dence , and talents fitted for business , he will hardly keep himself ...
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... mean the frequent repetition of the same act ; by habit , the effect which that repetition produces on the mind or body . By the custom of walking often in the streets , one acquires a habit of idleness . Pride , vanity . Pride makes us ...
... mean the frequent repetition of the same act ; by habit , the effect which that repetition produces on the mind or body . By the custom of walking often in the streets , one acquires a habit of idleness . Pride , vanity . Pride makes us ...
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accent acute accent adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence frequently give Grammar grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Сторінка 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Сторінка 372 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Сторінка 403 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Сторінка 237 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 170 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 105 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Сторінка 321 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.