A Minimum Course in RhetoricCentury Company, 1922 - 450 páginas |
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... hand , very long paragraphs are tedious . It should seldom be neces- sary for you to write a paragraph of more than two hundred words . But remember that a paragraph is one of the natural divisions of your subject , and , within ...
... hand , very long paragraphs are tedious . It should seldom be neces- sary for you to write a paragraph of more than two hundred words . But remember that a paragraph is one of the natural divisions of your subject , and , within ...
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... hand , on the contrary , in spite of what has been said . Therefore ( see section 55 ) , consequently , hence , thus , then , accordingly , for this reason , as a consequence of this , in view of these facts , the result is , since this ...
... hand , on the contrary , in spite of what has been said . Therefore ( see section 55 ) , consequently , hence , thus , then , accordingly , for this reason , as a consequence of this , in view of these facts , the result is , since this ...
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... hand from the desk ; yesterday he raised his hand from the desk ; he was seen raising his hand from the desk ; he has often raised his hand from the desk . Rise is intransitive . Now his hand rises from the desk ; yesterday his hand ...
... hand from the desk ; yesterday he raised his hand from the desk ; he was seen raising his hand from the desk ; he has often raised his hand from the desk . Rise is intransitive . Now his hand rises from the desk ; yesterday his hand ...
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... hand , a periodic sentence is somewhat stiffer and sounds a little arti- ficial ; but it is more forceful , giving considerable force to the idea at the end . When you are writing , save the periodic style for the enforcement of ideas ...
... hand , a periodic sentence is somewhat stiffer and sounds a little arti- ficial ; but it is more forceful , giving considerable force to the idea at the end . When you are writing , save the periodic style for the enforcement of ideas ...
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... hands in the brook . " Corrected : " His enthusiasm began to cool ; -I was too angry to grow cool all at once ; they cooled their hands in the brook . " Couple should not be used for several , a few . Wrong : " Rest your arm for a ...
... hands in the brook . " Corrected : " His enthusiasm began to cool ; -I was too angry to grow cool all at once ; they cooled their hands in the brook . " Couple should not be used for several , a few . Wrong : " Rest your arm for a ...
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1st paragraph accents adjective adverb amphibrachic anapest Appendix 12 argument asked Athelstane avoiding beginning cæsura called captain Cedric clear comma construction Corrected dangerous English example Exercise following sentences football force foregoing friends give gorilla grammatical Gurth hand horse iambic pentameter indicate infinitive interesting Ivanhoe kind King Arthur Laertes LESSON letter Log Cabin look main clause main idea means ment meter Misplaced modifier MODEL never night object onomatopoeia party periodic sentence person pleasant or delightful poetry preposition punctuation question Rebuttal relative pronoun repetition Right rule scansion sections sense of extremely slang slangy sense sound speech spondaic story street subordinate clause subordinating conjunction syllable symbol tell Templar tences theme thing thought tion told topic-sentence transition treats verb vowel Wamba weak reference whole words write Wrong
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Página 137 - Ah! my Lord Arthur, whither shall I go? Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes? For now I see the true old times are dead, When every morning brought a noble chance, And every chance brought out a noble knight.
Página 54 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole. country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad.
Página 128 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 335 - To HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 141 - Larger than human on the frozen hills. He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him like a goad. Dry...
Página 334 - Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short ; Youth is nimble, age is lame ; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold ; Youth is wild, and age is tame...
Página 137 - The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh. But now the whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world; And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Página 334 - He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 130 - Thou hast betray'd thy nature and thy name, Not rendering true answer, as beseem'd Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight: For surer sign had follow'd , either hand , Or voice, or else a motion of the mere. This is a shameful thing for men to lie. Yet now, I charge thee, quickly go again As thou art lief and dear, and do the thing I bade thee, watch, and lightly bring me word.
Página 79 - Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains ; and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapours about their summits, which, in the...