The Foundations of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1893 - 371 sider |
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... PROPER WORDS IN PROPER PLACES . Differ as good writers may in other respects , they are all distinguished by the judicious choice and the skilful placing of words . They all aim ( 1 ) to use no word that is not established as a part of ...
... PROPER WORDS IN PROPER PLACES . Differ as good writers may in other respects , they are all distinguished by the judicious choice and the skilful placing of words . They all aim ( 1 ) to use no word that is not established as a part of ...
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... proper and improper expressions , arranged for convenience in classes that correspond to the several parts of speech , are set side by side ; in Book II . , questions of choice between words equally proper are considered . Part II ...
... proper and improper expressions , arranged for convenience in classes that correspond to the several parts of speech , are set side by side ; in Book II . , questions of choice between words equally proper are considered . Part II ...
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... PROPER NOUNS . Nouns that are the names of any of the persons or things of a class are called COMMON NOUNS . There are , of course , many Julias and several Romes in the world ; but each Julia and each Rome has a proper name , and each ...
... PROPER NOUNS . Nouns that are the names of any of the persons or things of a class are called COMMON NOUNS . There are , of course , many Julias and several Romes in the world ; but each Julia and each Rome has a proper name , and each ...
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... proper English words . Dictionaries contain words that are no longer , or that are not yet , good English ; but it is the business of grammars to record and to classify expressions that are approved by good use , and to discuss ...
... proper English words . Dictionaries contain words that are no longer , or that are not yet , good English ; but it is the business of grammars to record and to classify expressions that are approved by good use , and to discuss ...
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... proper form ; but in modern English " at most " is to be preferred . I. I saw two men , one with curly hair and round , fishy eyes ; the other with eye - glasses on his nose . Years ago the two brothers had entered diverging paths of ...
... proper form ; but in modern English " at most " is to be preferred . I. I saw two men , one with curly hair and round , fishy eyes ; the other with eye - glasses on his nose . Years ago the two brothers had entered diverging paths of ...
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adjective adverbs American Annie Jones authors barks belongs Bennet Beware called Chanticleer clause clear colon comma common conjunction connected construction correct Darcy Darcy's dependent clause ease Elizabeth English examples expression fact fault feel FITZEDWARD HALL force girl give grammar Gulliver Hero horse important James Fenimore Cooper John lady language last sentence letter look meaning mind Miss misused never noun object obscure Ole Bull omitted originally written Orlando paragraph participle party passage as originally periodic sentence persons or things phrase plural poems preposition present principle pronoun punctuation question reader refer rule seems semicolon sense sentence as originally short sentences singular sometimes speak speech style subjunctive mood Sydney Carton tell tence thought tion tween unity verb vulgar whole Williams wish writer young
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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 344 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge ; the steady and successful repulse ; the loud call to repeated assault ; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance ; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death; — all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more. All...
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 341 - On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the unenclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides.
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 344 - England, that people choose to make their fellow-creatures wretched. When we were sent into a place of authority, you that sent us had yourselves but one commission to give. You could give us none to wrong or oppress, or even to suffer any kind of oppression or wrong, on any grounds whatsoever ; not on political, as in the affairs of America ; not on commercial, as in those of Ireland ; not in civil, as in the laws for debt ; not in religious, as in the statutes against Protestant or Catholic dissenters.