School Composition: Being Advanced Language-lessons for Grammar SchoolsHarper & Brothers, 1876 - 158 páginas |
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75 cents Adjective clause adjunct adverbial clause Alphonso animals Anthon's antiquity arrangement barrel battle of Actium beauty birds Cæsar called character Cloth colon Columbus comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction connection construction contains Dear Sir duty earth effects ellipsis English Notes Engravings evil EXAMPLE Exercise in Composing expression following sentences friar pointed friendship Grammar Greek habits happiness Henry HENRY DRISLER History ILLUSTRATIONS introduced JACOB ABBOTT James Thornhill John Smith Julius Cæsar kinds King Latin letter live LL.D Loomis's loose sentence meaning ment Metonymy moral morning nations nature ness never Noun clause object omission paragraph period phrases pleasure predicate principal pronoun proposition pupil Romans rule Saxon School and Family semicolon separated Sheep extra simple sentence statement style subordinate Synecdoche taste Tautology tence things thou thought tion trees truth unity verb virtue vols whale words Write six sentences
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Página 56 - The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Página 118 - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice : but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Página 108 - ... 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.
Página 57 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise ! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. 7 Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Página 55 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Página 108 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 99 - OF Man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos.
Página 105 - The subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings; the overthrow of their host, and the punishment of their crime ; the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures ; their original happiness and innocence, their forfeiture...
Página 106 - The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind; with whose actions the elements consented; on whose rectitude or deviation of will depended the state of terrestrial nature and the condition of all the future inhabitants of the globe.
Página 35 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger...