A Handbook of English CompositionEldredge & brother, 1895 - 360 páginas |
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... ordinary fowling - piece . The two muskets I * This example is taken from A. S. Hill , Foundations of Rhetoric , p . 306 , where the matter is fully treated . loaded with a brace of slugs each , and four 14 A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH ...
... ordinary fowling - piece . The two muskets I * This example is taken from A. S. Hill , Foundations of Rhetoric , p . 306 , where the matter is fully treated . loaded with a brace of slugs each , and four 14 A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH ...
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... ordinary occupants . To him , and to the venerable House of the Seven Gables , does our story now betake itself , like an owl bewildered in the daylight and hastening back to his hollow tree . - HAWTHORNE : Seven Gables , ch . xviii ...
... ordinary occupants . To him , and to the venerable House of the Seven Gables , does our story now betake itself , like an owl bewildered in the daylight and hastening back to his hollow tree . - HAWTHORNE : Seven Gables , ch . xviii ...
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... ordinary form of narration . So also what they do is narrated . Thus : ( 1 ) " Dear Clifford , " said Hepzibah , . . . " this is our cousin Phoebe- little Phœbe Pyncheon - Arthur's only child , you know . She has come from the country ...
... ordinary form of narration . So also what they do is narrated . Thus : ( 1 ) " Dear Clifford , " said Hepzibah , . . . " this is our cousin Phoebe- little Phœbe Pyncheon - Arthur's only child , you know . She has come from the country ...
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... ordinary narration . In addition to the dramatic form , there is in most works of fiction another feature to be noted . The author is apt to utilize his story for conveying his peculiar views upon social , political , religious , and ...
... ordinary narration . In addition to the dramatic form , there is in most works of fiction another feature to be noted . The author is apt to utilize his story for conveying his peculiar views upon social , political , religious , and ...
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... ordinary description , or a gen- eralized ? Or is it exposition ? Whatever theoretical an- swer we may give , we shall not err practically if we treat it as an ordinary description , for the reason that , in the describing , we start ...
... ordinary description , or a gen- eralized ? Or is it exposition ? Whatever theoretical an- swer we may give , we shall not err practically if we treat it as an ordinary description , for the reason that , in the describing , we start ...
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Página 293 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Página 38 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Página 45 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 45 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Página 300 - SHUT, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Página 93 - Meantime, the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant.
Página 97 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain.
Página 23 - You will observe that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity...
Página 280 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 226 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.