Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for RhetoricGriggs, 1884 - 174 páginas |
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... seemed there to be . PUNCTUATION OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE . To enable the eye to apprehend more readily the sense of a passage , certain marks are used called Punctuation Marks . These are : - The period The comma 9 . The semi - colon ...
... seemed there to be . PUNCTUATION OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE . To enable the eye to apprehend more readily the sense of a passage , certain marks are used called Punctuation Marks . These are : - The period The comma 9 . The semi - colon ...
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... seemed impossible to advance . But Cohorn was heroic . He flung himself in front . He cheered them on . They returned to the charge . They drove over the crashing timbers . It was like an impetuous torrent . 9. The keepers held the ...
... seemed impossible to advance . But Cohorn was heroic . He flung himself in front . He cheered them on . They returned to the charge . They drove over the crashing timbers . It was like an impetuous torrent . 9. The keepers held the ...
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... in the Swiss valleys , And toil for daily bread ; And every year that fleeted So silently and fast Seemed to bear farther from her The memory of the past . She served kind , gentle masters , Nor asked for PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALS . 29 •
... in the Swiss valleys , And toil for daily bread ; And every year that fleeted So silently and fast Seemed to bear farther from her The memory of the past . She served kind , gentle masters , Nor asked for PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALS . 29 •
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... seemed no more new ones , Their speech seemed no more strange ; And when she led her cattle To pasture every day , She ceased to look and wonder On which side Bregenz lay . She spoke no more of Bregenz With longing and with tears ; Her ...
... seemed no more new ones , Their speech seemed no more strange ; And when she led her cattle To pasture every day , She ceased to look and wonder On which side Bregenz lay . She spoke no more of Bregenz With longing and with tears ; Her ...
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... seemed afraid To go alone to play . One day , out in the meadow , With strangers from the town , Some secret plan discussing , The men walked up and down ; Yet now and then seemed watching A strange uncertain gleam , That looked like ...
... seemed afraid To go alone to play . One day , out in the meadow , With strangers from the town , Some secret plan discussing , The men walked up and down ; Yet now and then seemed watching A strange uncertain gleam , That looked like ...
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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 |
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 Cleon coach comma Complimentary Close cried Crodunk dear dependent clause DEVELOPMENT Dick Dolly door e'en emphatic Exercise expression eyes face father faulty examples fear flowers gate Gilpin gold Hamblin hand head heard heart heaven horse interrogation John Gilpin Julius Cæsar king Lake Constance land letter light Little white Lily look Lord maid master meadow meaning Metonymy mistress morning mountains Murillo never night noble noun o'er omitted PARAPHRASE pearls of dew PHOEBE CARY phrase plain fully pleasant poem pronouns punctuation pupil Queen REPRODUCTION ride river rose seemed sentence singing leaves slave sleep steed stood story Swanage sweet tell thee thou thought tion told Tom Flynn TOPICAL OUTLINE Tower Twas Tyrol unto watch William Caxton word write young
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Página 3 - Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely, 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
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 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 92 - Stop thief ! stop thief ! — a highwayman ! Not one of them was mute ; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space ; The toll-men thinking as before, That Gilpin rode a race.
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 124 - And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Página 42 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
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...