The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for RhetoricS.C. Griggs and Company, 1884 - 174 páginas |
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Página iii
... pupil has attained the maturity of mind necessary for the formal study of rhetoric , will enable him to become a tolerably correct composer ; at least to avoid the blunders , if not to acquire the graces , of composition . By the time ...
... pupil has attained the maturity of mind necessary for the formal study of rhetoric , will enable him to become a tolerably correct composer ; at least to avoid the blunders , if not to acquire the graces , of composition . By the time ...
Página iv
... pupil has made and the plot given , violations of correct proportion , inconsistencies of detail , faults of diction , etc. To several of the first Developments , hints have been added to guide and encourage the pupil . It will ...
... pupil has made and the plot given , violations of correct proportion , inconsistencies of detail , faults of diction , etc. To several of the first Developments , hints have been added to guide and encourage the pupil . It will ...
Página v
... pupil will be able to apply them with great advantage , in a more advanced part of his course , to the more difficult subjects of history , science , orations , etc. The Paraphrase deals exclusively with style . The passage given is ...
... pupil will be able to apply them with great advantage , in a more advanced part of his course , to the more difficult subjects of history , science , orations , etc. The Paraphrase deals exclusively with style . The passage given is ...
Página vi
... pupil has doubtless had in the lower grades some prac- tice in the description of simple objects , it is thought practicable to advance to themes offering more variety and more pleasure , but requiring more maturity of thought and style ...
... pupil has doubtless had in the lower grades some prac- tice in the description of simple objects , it is thought practicable to advance to themes offering more variety and more pleasure , but requiring more maturity of thought and style ...
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... pupils came , and glancing round , Mendez upon his canvas found , Not his own work of yesterday , But , glowing in the morning ray , A sketch , so rich , so pure , so bright , It almost seemed that there were given To glow before his ...
... pupils came , and glancing round , Mendez upon his canvas found , Not his own work of yesterday , But , glowing in the morning ray , A sketch , so rich , so pure , so bright , It almost seemed that there were given To glow before his ...
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The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric Lucy A. Chittenden Vista completa - 1891 |
The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric Lucy A. Chittenden Vista completa - 1884 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith amphithea antecedent birds breath Bregenz bright child Christmas pie clause coach comma Complimentary Close Congress of Ryswick cried Crodunk dear dependent clause DEVELOPMENT Dick door e'en emphatic Exercise expression eyes face fair father faulty examples fear flowers Flynn gate Gilpin gold Hamblin hand head heard heart heaven horse interrogative John Gilpin king ladies Lake Constance land letter light Little white Lily look Lord maid master meadow mean METONYMY morning mountains Murillo nest never night noble o'er omitted Palmyra paragraph pearls of dew PHOEBE CARY phrase plain fully poem Principle XV pronouns punctuation pupil Puss Queen REPRODUCTION ride river rode rose Sebastian seemed sentence simile singing leaves slave sleep steed stood story Swanage sweet tell thee thou thought tion told Tom Flynn TOPICAL OUTLINE Twas unto watch WILLIAM COWPER words young
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Página 140 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 161 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
Página 162 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Página 100 - And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Página 155 - As night drew on, and, from the crest Of wooded knolls that ridged the west, The sun, a snow-blown traveller, sank From sight beneath the smothering bank, We piled, with care, our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick ; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush ; then, hovering near, We watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam On...
Página 73 - We may not live to the time, when this Declaration shall be made good. We may die ; die, colonists ; die, slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may.
Página 90 - Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he ? His fame soon spread around, He carries weight ! he rides a race ! Tis for a thousand pound...
Página 154 - We reached the barn with merry din, And roused the prisoned brutes within. The old horse thrust his long head out, And grave with wonder gazed about ; The cock his lusty greeting said, And forth his speckled harem led...
Página 162 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Página 88 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear — Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will £11 the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.