The English Language: Its Grammar, History, and Literature: With Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and PunctuationBlackwood, 1886 - 388 páginas |
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... greatest importance to attend to the following changes : - ( i ) A sharp consonant follows a sharp , and a flat a flat . Thus p in sleep is sharp , and therefore we cannot say sleeped . We must take the sharp form of d , which is t ...
... greatest importance to attend to the following changes : - ( i ) A sharp consonant follows a sharp , and a flat a flat . Thus p in sleep is sharp , and therefore we cannot say sleeped . We must take the sharp form of d , which is t ...
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... greatest importance to get the eye to help the mind , and to present to the sight if possible — either on paper or on the black - board - the sentence we have to consider . This is called mapping - out . Let us take two simple sentences ...
... greatest importance to get the eye to help the mind , and to present to the sight if possible — either on paper or on the black - board - the sentence we have to consider . This is called mapping - out . Let us take two simple sentences ...
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... greatest Roman orator and writer of speeches that ever lived . ( Guides who described antiquities , etc. , were supposed to be as " fluent as Cicero . " ) Cravat , from the Croats or Crabali of Croatia , who supplied an army corps to ...
... greatest Roman orator and writer of speeches that ever lived . ( Guides who described antiquities , etc. , were supposed to be as " fluent as Cicero . " ) Cravat , from the Croats or Crabali of Croatia , who supplied an army corps to ...
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... greatest kind- ness . This sentence ought to be broken into two . The first should end with on shore ; and the second begin " Here I was met and , etc. " 8. See that who or which refers to its proper antecedent . " Shakespeare married ...
... greatest kind- ness . This sentence ought to be broken into two . The first should end with on shore ; and the second begin " Here I was met and , etc. " 8. See that who or which refers to its proper antecedent . " Shakespeare married ...
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... greatest among these being Dante and Petrarch , both of them poets of the thirteenth century . The best English sonnet - writers are Milton , Wordsworth , and Mrs Browning . ( ii ) The sonnet consists of two parts - an octave ( of eight ...
... greatest among these being Dante and Petrarch , both of them poets of the thirteenth century . The best English sonnet - writers are Milton , Wordsworth , and Mrs Browning . ( ii ) The sonnet consists of two parts - an octave ( of eight ...
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Página 339 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 234 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Página 328 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Página 301 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 102 - But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Página 256 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Página 165 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Página 326 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 346 - 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.
Página 315 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.