A Help to Young WritersCommon School Depository, printed by Packard and Van Benthuysen, 1836 - 144 páginas |
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... sentences upon pa- per . If they had been taught what composi- tion is , and had practised it , writing would be as easy as speaking . 40. There is no mystery in composition ; there is nothing in it to torture the mind ; it is as easy ...
... sentences upon pa- per . If they had been taught what composi- tion is , and had practised it , writing would be as easy as speaking . 40. There is no mystery in composition ; there is nothing in it to torture the mind ; it is as easy ...
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... sentences . Q. What are the chief things to be attend- ed to in the choice of words ? A. Purity , propriety , and precision . Q. What do you understand by the struc- ture of sentences ? A. Such an arrangement of the different words and ...
... sentences . Q. What are the chief things to be attend- ed to in the choice of words ? A. Purity , propriety , and precision . Q. What do you understand by the struc- ture of sentences ? A. Such an arrangement of the different words and ...
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... placing of words in a sentence according to the English idiom or mode of expression . Q. Can you give any examples of the viola- tion of this principle ? A. " He will repent himself of such con- duct , " is a French , not an English 40.
... placing of words in a sentence according to the English idiom or mode of expression . Q. Can you give any examples of the viola- tion of this principle ? A. " He will repent himself of such con- duct , " is a French , not an English 40.
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... sentences ? A. Thus ; " The king communicated his intention to the minister , the minister disclosed it to the secretary , and the secretary made it known to the public . " " His own judgment might have suggested better reasons . " Q ...
... sentences ? A. Thus ; " The king communicated his intention to the minister , the minister disclosed it to the secretary , and the secretary made it known to the public . " " His own judgment might have suggested better reasons . " Q ...
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... es- sence of poetry ; but in novels and romances it is much less necessary than in works which inculcate truth . Q. Can you correct the following sentences in which precision has been disregarded ? — James desisted 47.
... es- sence of poetry ; but in novels and romances it is much less necessary than in works which inculcate truth . Q. Can you correct the following sentences in which precision has been disregarded ? — James desisted 47.
Términos y frases comunes
accent Allegory Alliteration Amphibrach Anapæst ancient antithesis beauty blank verse called CHAPTER character chief compo compose composition connexion consist correct the follow Dactyl denote descriptive Descriptive Poetry Dramatic Poetry effect eloquence Epic Poetry excellence exercise express our thoughts feelings feet figurative language figures of speech founded frequently genius give an example greatest guage harmony human voice iambic verse idea idiom illustrate important improvement kind knowledge literal manner mean ment metaphor Metonymy mind nature never novels objects Orations ornament partly passions Pastoral pastoral poetry peculiar person perspicuity pleasure poem poet poetic feet possess precision principal prose purity quality of style racter reader or hearer resemblance rhyme rule scholars sense sentiments signification Simile sion sition sort sound speak or write speaker species of writing Spondee sublimity syllables Synecdoche taste term thing tion Tribrach Trochee unaccented understand words and members
Pasajes populares
Página 119 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Página 75 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 86 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Página 85 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Página 118 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Página 84 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; 2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
Página 130 - The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide ; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Página 87 - METONYMY is where the cause is put for. the effect, or the effect for the cause ; the container for the thing contained ; or the sign for the thing signified. When we say, " They read Milton," the cause is put for the effect, meaning
Página 57 - No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics given, T...
Página 126 - O'erflow thy courts: the Light himself shall shine Revealed, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ! But fixed his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own Messiah reigns ! ALEXANDER POPE.