The Essentials of Prose CompositionEldredge & Brother, 1902 - 219 páginas |
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... are merely a few out of hundreds collected in the last three or four years . They will serve to illustrate present tendencies . Cornell University , May , 1902 . J. M. HART . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. FORMS OF THE SENTENCE . 1. PREFACE .
... are merely a few out of hundreds collected in the last three or four years . They will serve to illustrate present tendencies . Cornell University , May , 1902 . J. M. HART . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. FORMS OF THE SENTENCE . 1. PREFACE .
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... illustrate the more usual varieties of each form . Many specimens have been taken from writers of acknowledged merit . The student is earnestly advised to cultivate the habit of examining for himself in like manner the sentence ...
... illustrate the more usual varieties of each form . Many specimens have been taken from writers of acknowledged merit . The student is earnestly advised to cultivate the habit of examining for himself in like manner the sentence ...
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... Hill , Foundations of Rhetoric , p . 219. In strictness , " while asleep " is not a dangling participle ; but it illustrates the dangling construction . In the following the writer probably intended to draw a 34 PROSE COMPOSITION .
... Hill , Foundations of Rhetoric , p . 219. In strictness , " while asleep " is not a dangling participle ; but it illustrates the dangling construction . In the following the writer probably intended to draw a 34 PROSE COMPOSITION .
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... illustrate the length to which a careless genius may go in constructing an impossible sentence of conditioned statement : However , as there is scarce any difficulty to which the strength of man , assisted with the cunning of art , is ...
... illustrate the length to which a careless genius may go in constructing an impossible sentence of conditioned statement : However , as there is scarce any difficulty to which the strength of man , assisted with the cunning of art , is ...
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... illustrate the principle sufficiently . Consequently , the unity of the bal- anced sentence is diminished by every unnecessary difference of structure . For example : As distinctly as Mr. R— is at the head of the men , so is Miss W the ...
... illustrate the principle sufficiently . Consequently , the unity of the bal- anced sentence is diminished by every unnecessary difference of structure . For example : As distinctly as Mr. R— is at the head of the men , so is Miss W the ...
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action Addison adverb Anne Boleyn ARNOLD assertion balanced sentence bear-baiting beginning blunders called character Chingachgook clause clear composition conditioned statement connection contrast criticism describe effect ELIOT English Ernest never essay example exposition expression eyes fact fiction force forcible George Eliot give grammatical habit Hamlin Garland hand Hawkeye Hawthorne Hill illustrate impression Irving kind larvæ link-paragraph look Macaulay Macaulay's Magua manner matter Matthew Arnold means merely Milton mind narration narrative ness object paper paragraph pass passage peculiar periodic sentence person phrase poet present principle proper Quincey reader relative clause Rhetoric Roger treated scene sense sentence of conditioned sentence-structure sequence short Silas Marner Sir Launfal Sir Roger specimen story streets structure student teacher tence Theseus things thought tion town truth unity usually verb whole words writer young
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Página 169 - ... passionate desires, he yearned to meet Her, only, could he love with a perfect love — him, only, could she receive into the depths of her heart— and now her image was faintly blushing in the fountain, by his side ; should it pass away, its happy lustre would never gleam upon his life again. •