Beginnings of Rhetoric and Composition: Including Practical Exercises in EnglishAmerican Book Company, 1902 - 522 страници |
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adverb American authors better blank the proper called choice clear comma composition correct Darcy DEAR dependent clause distinction English plurals example EXERCISE fact fault FORMS OF EXPRESSION forms suggested friends George Eliot gerund Give the meaning HILL'S RHET horse idea implies Insert Julius Cæsar lady language Latin living look mind Miss never noun obscure omitted once original or quoted Oxford English Dictionary paragraph parenthesis passage past participle periodic sentence person represented persons or things phrase political possessive preferable preposition present pronoun properly question quotations reader relative clause sense sentence under II Shylock Silas Marner simple futurity singular sometimes speak speech story subjunctive tell tence thought tion to-day town TROLLOPE unity usage usually verb volition vulgarisms wish woman writer young
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Страница 164 - And only the Master shall praise us. and only the Master shall blame: And no one shall work for money. and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working. and each. in his separate star. Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Страница 469 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Страница 472 - Events which shortsighted politicians -ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe.
Страница 360 - I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. — He gave a deep sigh. — I saw the iron enter into his soul ! — I burst into tears. I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn.
Страница 405 - After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores, with their splint-bottomed chairs tilted back against the...
Страница 359 - I took a single captive, and, having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Страница 157 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog." And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?
Страница 359 - He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Страница 382 - As I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream.
Страница 402 - Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed, The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...