A Handbook of English CompositionEldredge & brother, 1895 - 360 páginas |
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... perhaps the easiest for the beginner . The teacher of any subject , after explaining the contents of a section . of the book studied , may require the scholar to write down his recollections of the contents in a short paragraph , and ...
... perhaps the easiest for the beginner . The teacher of any subject , after explaining the contents of a section . of the book studied , may require the scholar to write down his recollections of the contents in a short paragraph , and ...
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... perhaps even the wording , of the last clause of the sentence immediately preceding . This echo device is extremely effective ; it has been em- ployed , consciously or unconsciously , by many of the best writers . Thus : Just as I was ...
... perhaps even the wording , of the last clause of the sentence immediately preceding . This echo device is extremely effective ; it has been em- ployed , consciously or unconsciously , by many of the best writers . Thus : Just as I was ...
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... perhaps your knowledge of the case was originally gained under opportunities allowed only by confidence or by unsuspecting carelessness . Sometimes the disclosure would cause quar- rels between parties now at peace . Sometimes it would ...
... perhaps your knowledge of the case was originally gained under opportunities allowed only by confidence or by unsuspecting carelessness . Sometimes the disclosure would cause quar- rels between parties now at peace . Sometimes it would ...
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... perhaps has done us a greater service than can be specially attributed to more than two or three : yet , ungrateful that we are , no written or spoken eulogy of James Boswell anywhere exists ; his recompense in solid pudding ( so far as ...
... perhaps has done us a greater service than can be specially attributed to more than two or three : yet , ungrateful that we are , no written or spoken eulogy of James Boswell anywhere exists ; his recompense in solid pudding ( so far as ...
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... perhaps , offer a safe test . The reviewer gives the nominal introductory paragraph , sometimes more than one paragraph , to a brief estimate of the book , before pass- ing to his real subject , the person who is the central figure of ...
... perhaps , offer a safe test . The reviewer gives the nominal introductory paragraph , sometimes more than one paragraph , to a brief estimate of the book , before pass- ing to his real subject , the person who is the central figure of ...
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argument beginning Burke Cæsar cæsura called Carlyle century chapter character clause comma composition David Copperfield defined drama England English essay exposition expression eyes fact figures George Eliot give grammatical Hawthorne historical present ical introduced Irving Johnson Julius Cæsar lady language less letter Lord Macaulay Macaulay's mammæ Marble Faun marked Matthew Arnold means Merchant of Venice merely Metonymy metre mind narration narrative nature object observed orator ordinary Paradise Lost passage peculiar perhaps person poems poetry poets practical principle pronoun proper proposition prose-writers punctuation quatrain Quincey quotation reader Rhetoric rhyme rules Sartor Resartus scarcely sense sentence sequence Seven Gables Shakespeare Silas Marner simile Sleepy Hollow speech stanza statement story syllable TENNYSON term things thought tion treated unity usually verb verse Warren Hastings Webster whole words and phrases young writer
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Página 299 - 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 44 - 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 51 - 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 51 - 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 306 - 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 99 - 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 103 - 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 29 - 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 286 - 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 232 - 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.