The Mother Tongue: Book III : Elements of English Composition, Libro 3Ginn & Company, 1902 - 431 páginas |
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... character of their previous train- ing in English ; and it is well adapted to the purposes of a review or general survey of the subject in preparation for the systematic study of the Forms of Discourse in Part II.1 Thus Part I affords a ...
... character of their previous train- ing in English ; and it is well adapted to the purposes of a review or general survey of the subject in preparation for the systematic study of the Forms of Discourse in Part II.1 Thus Part I affords a ...
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... Character in Description 183 Description not an Inventory 187 Description in Stories 189 Action in Description 191 The Central Point in a Description 192 Exercises in Description EXPLANATION 194 199 Importance of Explanation 211 The ...
... Character in Description 183 Description not an Inventory 187 Description in Stories 189 Action in Description 191 The Central Point in a Description 192 Exercises in Description EXPLANATION 194 199 Importance of Explanation 211 The ...
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... character of the three stories ( Franklin's plain record of ordinary occurrences , Mr. Riis's account of an exciting incident in everyday life , and Scott's narra- tive of a great historical event ) and should explain how the same wise ...
... character of the three stories ( Franklin's plain record of ordinary occurrences , Mr. Riis's account of an exciting incident in everyday life , and Scott's narra- tive of a great historical event ) and should explain how the same wise ...
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... character of Sir Henry Lee , and felt , even when his fingers were on the latch , a reluctance to intrude himself upon the presence of the irritable old knight . 9. Foiled in an attempt on North Carolina by the refusal of his fellow ...
... character of Sir Henry Lee , and felt , even when his fingers were on the latch , a reluctance to intrude himself upon the presence of the irritable old knight . 9. Foiled in an attempt on North Carolina by the refusal of his fellow ...
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... characters and has led up to the point of his story . Compare the 2. Read Browning's " Incident of the French Camp . " Then tell the story as briefly and vividly as you can . movement of your story with that of the poem . How does it 3 ...
... characters and has led up to the point of his story . Compare the 2. Read Browning's " Incident of the French Camp . " Then tell the story as briefly and vividly as you can . movement of your story with that of the poem . How does it 3 ...
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action adjective antonyms Arcot argument arrangement asking Australian Kangaroo Battle of Bannockburn beautiful Benjamin Parker bring business letter cæsura called character clauses clear comma Compare complex sentence composition compound sentences construction conversation definite Describe Dinah Morris effect English essay example exercises experience explanation express facts familiar feelings flower Franklin's George Eliot give hand iambic iambus ideas illustrate incident indicate interest introduction Julius Cæsar kind king language learned literature Lochinvar locomotive look material means mind narrative natural never noun objects observe omitted outline paragraph passage person poem practice principle pupils purpose question reader reply rhyme Rumpelstiltskin scene SECTION selection Shakspere simple specific speech spondee stanza structure style suggest syllables TEACHER Tell the story tence things thought tion topics trochee variety verb verse Write a description written
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Página 167 - Listen! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Página 53 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Página 115 - I long woo'd your daughter, my suit you denied ; Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide— And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland, more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Página 410 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The Heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.
Página 337 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Página 400 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-who...
Página 288 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 329 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face: But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: So Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Página 286 - Talent is power; tact is skill. Talent is weight ; tact is momentum. Talent knows what to do; tact knows how to do it. Talent makes a man respectable ; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth ; tact is ready money.
Página 405 - He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I" th" middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, BUTLER.