KEY TO EXERCISES IN ENGLISH COMPOSITION BY R. S. KNIGHT, F.R.S.L. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 1876. GRAMMATICAL COMPOSITION. PART I. THE HERMITAGE. A winding path leads you by an imperceptible ascent, through groves of laurels, bays, pines, cedars, myrtles, and all kinds of beautiful evergreens, with which the sides of the mountains are eternally covered, to an apartment cut out in the substance of the rock, consisting of two rooms. You enter into the first through an arch, hewn out without much art, whose only ornaments are the ivy, with which it is almost entirely overgrown, and the crystalline icicles, which winter hangs on the inequalities of its surface. The only light that it receives is through this arch; and the plainness of the furniture is answerable to that of the building. The floor is covered with a kind of moss, that is always dry; and a couch of the same goes round the room: on the right side, at the farther end, is a little stone table, with the hermit's usual furniture, a book, a skull, an hour-glass, and a lamp. TRUTH AND HONESTY. Truth in literature is the same thing with honesty in common life. You may admire an ingenious man; but you would always wish to be concerned indeed, no man can be safe in with an honest one: any other company. If a great genius is dishonest, his ingenuity only renders him the more danger B |