Elementary Composition and RhetoricLeach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1894 - 286 sider |
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Side 12
... person reads nothing but the best literature , and hears nothing but pure English , he will easily acquire a vocabulary of pure English words . This term " pure English " may be used in two senses . In the strictest sense a word is not ...
... person reads nothing but the best literature , and hears nothing but pure English , he will easily acquire a vocabulary of pure English words . This term " pure English " may be used in two senses . In the strictest sense a word is not ...
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... persons who use them unconsciously and as mere methods of expressing their meaning . . . . As a rule , however , people who take to the use of mental jocularities com- bine the mental standpoint of those who try to be funny with the ...
... persons who use them unconsciously and as mere methods of expressing their meaning . . . . As a rule , however , people who take to the use of mental jocularities com- bine the mental standpoint of those who try to be funny with the ...
Side 28
... persons . Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Wonderful One - Hoss Shay , James Russell Lowell in The Biglow Papers , and Tennyson in The Northern Farmer use words unknown to standard English . Yet the very lack of conformity to ordinary gram ...
... persons . Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Wonderful One - Hoss Shay , James Russell Lowell in The Biglow Papers , and Tennyson in The Northern Farmer use words unknown to standard English . Yet the very lack of conformity to ordinary gram ...
Side 29
... person , he must be satisfied with nothing short of the purest English , free from vulgarity and affectation . The standard of culture varies from generation to generation . Some words universally used in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
... person , he must be satisfied with nothing short of the purest English , free from vulgarity and affectation . The standard of culture varies from generation to generation . Some words universally used in the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
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... person , as , ' Will I go ? ' A man cannot ask if he wills to do anything . That he must know , and only he knows . " Will in the second person declares or foretells ; as , ' You will go with him . ' Hence it is used with courteous ...
... person , as , ' Will I go ? ' A man cannot ask if he wills to do anything . That he must know , and only he knows . " Will in the second person declares or foretells ; as , ' You will go with him . ' Hence it is used with courteous ...
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Addison appear arguments arrangement athletics attention beauty beginning borrowed Brutus Burke Cæsar chap character clauses clear Compare composition Comus CONCLUSION connection Describe diction discourse discussion effect English Esther expression facts faults Find examples forcible French George Eliot give hearers illustrate important INTRODUCTION Ivanhoe Johnson Julius Cæsar KATHARINE LEE BATES language leading letter long sentences Lycidas Macaulay Macaulay's Essay Marmion meaning Merchant of Venice metaphor methods metonymy narrative natural object obscure orator paragraph Periodic sentences person phrases play poem pronoun proposition prose Puritans purpose question reader relation Relative clauses Shakespeare short Shylock Silas Marner simile sion Sketch speaker speech style suggested Tell the story tence Tennyson Thackeray theme things thought tion topics unity variety vocabulary Wellesley College Whig whole words writing young writer
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Side 94 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Side 47 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Side 96 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Side 147 - LONG lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a moulder'd church; and higher A long street climbs to one tall-tower'd mill; And high in heaven behind it a gray down With Danish barrows; and a hazelwood, By autumn nutters haunted, flourishes Green in a cuplike hollow of the down.
Side 53 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Side 59 - Such are their ideas, such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country, and our race, as long as the well-compacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Side 179 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Side 111 - The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.
Side 52 - * And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take: The laughing flowers that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Side 259 - But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and supericription of the Most High. These great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton.