Progressive Exercises in English CompositionLincoln and Edmands, 1833 - 105 страници |
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adverbs adversity Affectation allegory Alliteration amplified analogy animal Antithesis arrangement ascended attention beauty beginner benevolence cause character Cloven footed comparison compound sentence connexion corrected cultivation Dacians Damon death Decebalus degree Dionysius dress earth embrace employed EUPHEMISM EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE figurative language flax Fortune genius give Grammar habits happiness hills of Bagdad History idea important Indolence kind knowledge labour Lesson 18th Lesson 30th letter light live mankind manner meaning metaphor mind MODEL Modesty NARRATION nature nexion object ornament parent particulars pass periphrasis persons Phenicia pillar Plain Plancus pleasure Pompeii presented Pride principal Progressive Exercises PROSOPOPOEIA pupil Pythias religion resemblance Rhetorick rhyme Romans sense signify simple sentences solitude STRENGTH AND HARMONY STYLE taste Tautology teacher tences things thought tion tivate Trajan TROPE truth UNITY Variety of expression verses virtue words writer intends youth
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Страница 30 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Страница 31 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Страница 54 - Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart...
Страница 30 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Страница 30 - EPITAPH. Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Страница 42 - My lord," said Pythias, with a firm voice and noble aspect, " I would it were possible that I might suffer a thousand deaths, rather than my friend should fail in any article of his honour. He cannot fail therein, my lord. I am as confident of his virtue, as I am of my own existence. — But I pray, I beseech the gods, to preserve the life and integrity of my Damon together. Oppose him, ye winds ! prevent the eagerness and impatience of his honourable endeavours...
Страница 10 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Страница 54 - Yet, fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream! by the village side; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.
Страница 30 - Live, while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live, while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to GOD each moment as it flies.
Страница 57 - And why .' because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves ; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes through their wounded hearts the sudden dread: But their hearts wounded, like the wounded air, Soon close; where past the shaft no trace is found. As from the wing no scar the sky retains, The parted wave no furrow from the keel, So dies in human hearts the thought of death : E'en with the tender tear which Nature sheds O'er those we love, we drop it in...