Progressive Exercises in English CompositionLincoln and Edmands, 1833 - 105 страници |
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advantages Affectation allegory Alliteration amplified analogy animal antithesis ascended attention beauty benevolence Biography Boston cause character Cloven footed comparison COMPLEX THEMES composition compound sentence connexion corrected cultivated Dacians Damon death Decebalus degree Dionysius dress earth embraced employed EUPHEMISM EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE favour figurative language flax Fortune genius give Grammar habits happiness harmony hills of Bagdad History idea important Indolence kind knowledge labour Lesson 35th letter light live mankind manner meaning metaphor methodise mind MODEL Modesty NARRATION nature object ornament Page 59th Page 64th paraphrase parent particular periphrasis persons Phenicia pillar Plain Plancus pleasure Pompeii present Pride principle Progressive Exercises PROSOPOPOEIA pupil Pythias religion resemblance Rhetorick rhyme Romans sense shines signify simple sentences solitude STYLE taste Tautology teacher tences things thought tion tivate Trajan truth Variety of expression verses virtue winds words 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 30 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
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 59 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
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 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 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.
Страница 48 - To soar. Hail to the morn, when first they stood On Bunker's height, And, fearless, stemmed the invading flood, And wrote our dearest rights in blood, And mowed in ranks the Hireling brood, In desperate fight!
Страница 60 - It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer. I hear the sound of the hammer, I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human limbs. I see the visages of those, who by stealth, and at midnight, labor in this work of hell, foul and dark, as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and torture.