The Foundations of RhetoricHarpers & brothers, 1892 - 337 sider |
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Side 66
... tence ended at " felt , " the pronoun would have been the object of " felt , " and " whom " would have been correct ; but in the sentence as it stands whom is incorrect , because the pronoun is the subject of " could be . " Slips of ...
... tence ended at " felt , " the pronoun would have been the object of " felt , " and " whom " would have been correct ; but in the sentence as it stands whom is incorrect , because the pronoun is the subject of " could be . " Slips of ...
Side 99
... tence " No one will wonder that they raise a protest , though it be like the helpless cry of an untaught child , " the clause beginning " though it be " is equivalent to " though it be , perhaps , like the helpless cry , " etc .; it ...
... tence " No one will wonder that they raise a protest , though it be like the helpless cry of an untaught child , " the clause beginning " though it be " is equivalent to " though it be , perhaps , like the helpless cry , " etc .; it ...
Side 127
... tence was severe . " I. This is an offer of so remark- able a character that it seems hardly credible . II . This is an offer of so remark- able a character that it seems hardly creditable . That is " credible " which may be believed ...
... tence was severe . " I. This is an offer of so remark- able a character that it seems hardly credible . II . This is an offer of so remark- able a character that it seems hardly creditable . That is " credible " which may be believed ...
Side 161
... tence is good colloquial English . Of the two forms given under I. , the second is preferable to the first , because , like a line in Browning's " Before , " - Still one must n't be too much in earnest either , it is wholly in ...
... tence is good colloquial English . Of the two forms given under I. , the second is preferable to the first , because , like a line in Browning's " Before , " - Still one must n't be too much in earnest either , it is wholly in ...
Side 225
... a dagger in him at any moment that had been de- signed for the acting Governor . I. Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the richest of the. ernor . tence . 1 See pages 174-196 . 10 * CLEARNESS 225 Clearness as Affected by Order.
... a dagger in him at any moment that had been de- signed for the acting Governor . I. Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the richest of the. ernor . tence . 1 See pages 174-196 . 10 * CLEARNESS 225 Clearness as Affected by Order.
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adjective adverbs American Annie Jones authors belongs Bennet better Beware boys called Chanticleer character clause clear common conjunction connect correct Darcy Darcy's declensions dependent clause ease Elizabeth English euphony examples express fact fault feel FITZEDWARD HALL forto girl give grammar group of words Gulliver happy Hero barks horse idea incorrect inflections James Fenimore Cooper lady language last sentence look mind Miss misused never noun object obscure omitted originally written paragraph participle party passage as originally periodic sentence persons or things poems possessive preposition present preterite pronoun proper word question reader refer relative pronoun rule seems sense sentence as originally short sentences singular sometimes speak speech spoken story subjunctive mood tell tence tense Thackeray thought tion unity verb verbal nouns VULGARISMS wish دو
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Side 251 - But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection, and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
Side 195 - Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Side 190 - 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...
Side 195 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Side 189 - There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill ; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Side 30 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Side 195 - I love to see the look with which it braves, Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time, The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves.
Side 251 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.
Side 281 - I had put my housewife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid ; but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table. I was reading it to Mrs. Cole, and, since she went away, I was reading it again to my mother, for it is such a pleasure to her — a letter from...
Side 189 - Amid yon tuft of hazel trees That twinkle to the gusty breeze, Behold him perched in ecstasies, Yet seeming still to hover; There! where the flutter of his wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over.