Composition and Rhetoric for Higher SchoolsGinn & Company, 1901 - 470 pàgines |
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Composition and Rhetoric for Higher Schools Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood,Mary Alice Emerson Visualització completa - 1901 |
Composition and Rhetoric for Higher Schools Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood,Mary Alice Emerson Visualització completa - 1901 |
Composition and Rhetoric for Higher Schools Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood,Mary Alice Emerson Visualització completa - 1901 |
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adjective adverbs Amphibrach anapest Anglo-Saxon arrangement beauty beginning Bring to class called carefully CHAPTER character chief clause climax coherence comma compound sentence connecting words definite dictionary emphasis English English language essay example EXERCISE exposition expression eyes facts figures following sentences supply give Godfrey Cass hand hear illustrations imagination important impression interesting Julius Cæsar kind language letter LONGFELLOW look Lorna Doone Macbeth marks metaphor metonymy mind narration nature never notes noun novel object observed outline periodic sentences person phrases poetry point of view possible preposition present pronoun punctuation pupil quotation reading retelling Robert Louis Stevenson Scene selection Shakespeare short Silas Silas Marner simile sometimes sound speech story student suggested syllable tell tetrameter thee theme things thou thought tion topic-sentence topics unity usually verb verse writing
Passatges populars
Pàgina 72 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Pàgina 461 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
Pàgina 159 - Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade, and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing; The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing...
Pàgina 456 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Pàgina 115 - Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.
Pàgina 445 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts ; I am no orator, as Brutus is: But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend : and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Pàgina 10 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Pàgina 235 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, , — the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Pàgina 453 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Pàgina 254 - Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to such friends as are able to give a man counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or picture, than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.