Elementary English Composition for High Schools and AcademiesCharles Scribner's Sons, 1905 - 328 páginas |
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Elementary English Composition for High Schools and Academies Frederick Henry Sykes Vista completa - 1905 |
Elementary English Composition for High Schools and Academies Frederick Henry Sykes Vista completa - 1905 |
Elementary English Composition for High Schools and Academies Frederick Henry Sykes Vista completa - 1906 |
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Alfred Tennyson Arthur Balmung beauty Bedivere Beowulf Beowulf and Grendel bobolink Cæsar called capital letters castle clauses Colchis comma composition Composition.-Tell the story Cyclops death Describe dragon Echo English EXERCISE expression eyes Fairy fell fire frogs gave Geats give glory Greeks Grendel hand head heard Henry Thoreau horse intransitive verb italicized Julius Cæsar Jupiter King Lamb land LESSON live Lord mark Memorize:-FROM mountains never night NOTE Notice Oral Composition.-1 outline paragraph Persians Peter Klaus phrases Pied Piper prince Principles-The Sentence punctuation quotation Rabbit rats REFERENCES FOR READING rime river scene ship Sir Walter Scott sleep spring Stork street sword syllable Tarnhelm Tell the story tence thee theme Theme:-THE thou thought told topic sentence trees Ulysses valley William Edmonstoune Aytoun wind Wolf words Write
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Página 35 - The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy* He will not always chide ; neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Página 208 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 113 - So said he, and the barge with oar and sail Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. Long stood Sir Bedivere Revolving many memories, till the hull Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn, And on the mere the wailing died away.
Página 193 - The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist...
Página 212 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone!
Página 39 - Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Página 35 - For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Página 276 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Página 53 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Página 303 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.