Advanced Course of Composition and RhetoricD. Appleton and Company, 1877 |
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... produced by as many political changes , until at last the German invaders banished it to wilds and fastnesses , and introduced the sturdy mother - tongue of our own English . The history of the latter is then traced , from the days of ...
... produced by as many political changes , until at last the German invaders banished it to wilds and fastnesses , and introduced the sturdy mother - tongue of our own English . The history of the latter is then traced , from the days of ...
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... produce more correct and better poetry , as it certainly will enable the reader to have a higher appreciation of its merits . Not every one who goes through a course of syntax can write good prose ; yet this does not alter the fact that ...
... produce more correct and better poetry , as it certainly will enable the reader to have a higher appreciation of its merits . Not every one who goes through a course of syntax can write good prose ; yet this does not alter the fact that ...
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George Payn Quackenbos. produce a useful book , he did not feel at liberty to reject aught that could be turned to practical use . He has , therefore , as far as was consistent with his own plan , carefully gleaned whatever he has found ...
George Payn Quackenbos. produce a useful book , he did not feel at liberty to reject aught that could be turned to practical use . He has , therefore , as far as was consistent with his own plan , carefully gleaned whatever he has found ...
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... produce similar impres- sions . But from these impressions brutes can not reason any further than their natural instincts ... produced upon them , differ ? How , then , do men receive more ideas from these impressions than brutes ? above ...
... produce similar impres- sions . But from these impressions brutes can not reason any further than their natural instincts ... produced upon them , differ ? How , then , do men receive more ideas from these impressions than brutes ? above ...
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... produced a collection of words very im- perfectly connected ; practice , in multiplying them , gave them more ... produce ? What did practice impart to them ? What do we owe to the desire of pleasing ? of beauty and strength . The ...
... produced a collection of words very im- perfectly connected ; practice , in multiplying them , gave them more ... produce ? What did practice impart to them ? What do we owe to the desire of pleasing ? of beauty and strength . The ...
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acatalectic adjectives adverb Æneid anapestic ancient beautiful blank verse Cæsar called character Cicero classes clauses comma commence composed composition connection consists correct criticism degree denote derived division effect emotion employed English ENGLISH LANGUAGE epic poetry exclamation-point EXERCISE expression fault figures following sentences genius Give an example Give examples grammar Greek iambic pentameter ideas Illustrate imagination interrogation-point introduced invention ject kind language LESSON letters literature means mind moral nature nouns objects origin ornaments parenthetical passage passions period person Philip of Macedon pleasure poet poetry present principles produced pronoun proper proposition prose punctuation Quintilian reader regard relating Repeat Rule respect rhetoric rhyme Roman Saxon semicolon sense signify similes sound stanza style sublime syllables Syllepsis Taste tence term things thou thought tion tongue transitive verbs trochaic trochee truth variety verb verse virtue words writer written
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Page 407 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 208 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Page 267 - Yet he was kind — or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.
Page 101 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Page 268 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 208 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page 236 - Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 33. As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Page 331 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory!
Page 432 - Then I am paid ; And once again I do receive thee honest : — Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth...
Page 267 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...