Specimens of Prose CompositionCharles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough Ginn, 1907 - 478 oldal |
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68. oldal
... seed , just so much nourishment is lost . The time when the proper condition is reached varies in different parts of the country , and depends upon the weather . Thus , in the southern states of New England , the grass is usually in a 68.
... seed , just so much nourishment is lost . The time when the proper condition is reached varies in different parts of the country , and depends upon the weather . Thus , in the southern states of New England , the grass is usually in a 68.
69. oldal
Charles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough. of New England , the grass is usually in a condition to be cut earlier in the season than in the more northern states . As a rule , however , we find that hay ...
Charles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough. of New England , the grass is usually in a condition to be cut earlier in the season than in the more northern states . As a rule , however , we find that hay ...
122. oldal
... England with 70,000 specie dollars . She proceeded to Mocha , on the Red Sea , and there laid out these dollars in coffee , drugs , spices , and other articles procured in that market . With this new cargo she proceeded to Europe ; two ...
... England with 70,000 specie dollars . She proceeded to Mocha , on the Red Sea , and there laid out these dollars in coffee , drugs , spices , and other articles procured in that market . With this new cargo she proceeded to Europe ; two ...
127. oldal
... England pulpit anathematized Tom Jefferson as an atheist and a satyr . Jefferson denounced John Jay as a rogue , and the chief newspaper of the opposition , on the morning that Washington retired from the presidency , thanked God that ...
... England pulpit anathematized Tom Jefferson as an atheist and a satyr . Jefferson denounced John Jay as a rogue , and the chief newspaper of the opposition , on the morning that Washington retired from the presidency , thanked God that ...
134. oldal
... England . The character and necessity of party were as plain to him as 5 to any man . But when he saw that the national welfare demanded the repeal of the corn - laws which he had always supported , he did not quail . Amply avowing the ...
... England . The character and necessity of party were as plain to him as 5 to any man . But when he saw that the national welfare demanded the repeal of the corn - laws which he had always supported , he did not quail . Amply avowing the ...
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389. oldal - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
312. oldal - During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
312. oldal - I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain, upon the bleak walls, upon the vacant eye-like windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees, with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium, the bitter lapse into every-day life, the hideous dropping off of the veil.
23. oldal - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
313. oldal - ... among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate, its capacity for sorrowful impression ; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling...
312. oldal - DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
313. oldal - It was a mystery all insoluble ; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.
278. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
14. oldal - He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd ; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.
279. oldal - There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock hangings of Mrs.