English CompositionMacmillan, 1893 - 124 oldal |
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2. oldal
... give interest to the chronology of literature , by setting before the eye the relation between the literature and the practical life of mankind . ' J. MACLEHOSE & SONS , GLASGOW . Literature Primers . Edited by J. R. GREEN . ENGLISH ...
... give interest to the chronology of literature , by setting before the eye the relation between the literature and the practical life of mankind . ' J. MACLEHOSE & SONS , GLASGOW . Literature Primers . Edited by J. R. GREEN . ENGLISH ...
12. oldal
... give me thy heart . " ( g ) After the adverbs , nay , finally , at least , & c.— " Finally , let me sum up the argument . " ( h ) After a nominative , where the verb is under- stood— “ To err is human ; to forgive , divine . " The ...
... give me thy heart . " ( g ) After the adverbs , nay , finally , at least , & c.— " Finally , let me sum up the argument . " ( h ) After a nominative , where the verb is under- stood— “ To err is human ; to forgive , divine . " The ...
14. oldal
... give an instance or enumerate the parts before referred to generally . & c . , for etcetera , and the rest , when all the parts necessary to illustrate the proposition have been named and it would be waste of time to complete the ...
... give an instance or enumerate the parts before referred to generally . & c . , for etcetera , and the rest , when all the parts necessary to illustrate the proposition have been named and it would be waste of time to complete the ...
18. oldal
... gives wrong forms of the parts of speech , or violates the rules of syntax . These rules are laid down in English gram- mars ; but as they are frequently transgressed even by standard writers , it is proper here to refer to some of the ...
... gives wrong forms of the parts of speech , or violates the rules of syntax . These rules are laid down in English gram- mars ; but as they are frequently transgressed even by standard writers , it is proper here to refer to some of the ...
26. oldal
... gives pain to the mind and memory and ex- poses the unskilful hearer to mingle the particulars together . It leads them into a thick wood instead of into open daylight . " The pronoun " them " gram- matically refers to particulars ...
... gives pain to the mind and memory and ex- poses the unskilful hearer to mingle the particulars together . It leads them into a thick wood instead of into open daylight . " The pronoun " them " gram- matically refers to particulars ...
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absurd accent adjectives adverbs affected Alliteration ambiguity Amphibrach applied ARCHIBALD GEIKIE arrangement assertion avoid better blank verse CHAPTER Chaucer clauses clear common confusion construction convey correct Criticize death Decasyllabic Demosthenes Distinguish employed ENGLISH COMPOSITION English language errors Euphuism examples expression fall Falstaff figures following sentences frequently friends give grammar Greek hand hath head heaven idea illustrate instance JOHN RICHARD GREEN king language Latin less literature live Lord meaning ment metaphor mind nature never Note noun obscurity Observe Onomatopeia Ottava Rima passages pause person Perspicuity phrases Pleonasm plural poet poetic poetry present pronoun prose quantity quotation reader Refer rhyme rule sense Shakespeare Simile singular sound speak speech spondees STOPFORD BROOKE style syllable Synecdoche Tautology thee things thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verb verse virtue write
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114. oldal - 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...
88. oldal - And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
116. oldal - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
116. oldal - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th...
55. oldal - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
104. oldal - By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye. Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the heir-apparent ? should I turn upon the true prince? why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct.
115. oldal - Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring : Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string.
88. oldal - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
105. oldal - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine; And after one hour more 't will be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
105. oldal - Street; and every third word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do remember him at Clement's Inn like a man made after supper of a cheeseparing : when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: a...