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... effects which please or impress him in his reading . Thus the study of literature is brought to the assistance of practice in com- position without being improperly subordinated to it , and prac- tice in composition is made really ...
... effects which please or impress him in his reading . Thus the study of literature is brought to the assistance of practice in com- position without being improperly subordinated to it , and prac- tice in composition is made really ...
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... the art of composition . Part II is , in effect , a treatise on rhetorical technique . The discussion , how- ever , is not formal , but practical , and the doctrines are set forth in their relation to literature as such , and to iv PREFACE.
... the art of composition . Part II is , in effect , a treatise on rhetorical technique . The discussion , how- ever , is not formal , but practical , and the doctrines are set forth in their relation to literature as such , and to iv PREFACE.
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... effects having happened from handling or catching the mussels ; but when I taunted him with this , he very shrewdly replied , that his inability to do so only arose from the fact of nobody being " wooden - headed enough " to meddle with ...
... effects having happened from handling or catching the mussels ; but when I taunted him with this , he very shrewdly replied , that his inability to do so only arose from the fact of nobody being " wooden - headed enough " to meddle with ...
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... effects , rather than singing , — " O wherefore did he eat the mussels ? Now the boyl - yas storms and thunder make ; O wherefore would he eat the mussels ? " At last I so completely lost my temper , that 28 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC.
... effects , rather than singing , — " O wherefore did he eat the mussels ? Now the boyl - yas storms and thunder make ; O wherefore would he eat the mussels ? " At last I so completely lost my temper , that 28 COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC.
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... effects , their bearing on the progress of civilization . " The Siege of Arcot " ( pp . 419-423 ) , for example , is a good story , but it is more than that it helps to make clear how India was won for the British Empire . So Scott's ...
... effects , their bearing on the progress of civilization . " The Siege of Arcot " ( pp . 419-423 ) , for example , is a good story , but it is more than that it helps to make clear how India was won for the British Empire . So Scott's ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action adjective Arcot argument arrangement Australian Kangaroo Battle of Bannockburn beauty begin Benjamin Parker brief bring business letters Cæsar cæsura called Chapter character clauses clear climax Compare composition compound sentences conversation definite Describe Dinah Morris effect English essay example exercises explain exposition express facts familiar feel flower George Eliot give hand iambus idea illustrate imagination incidents interest introduction Ivanhoe Julius Cæsar kind language Lochinvar look Macbeth means ment method mind narration narrative natural never NOTE noun object observe outline paragraph passage person phrases plot principle pupil purpose question reader rhyme Rumpelstiltskin scene selection sense Shakspere short Silas Marner simple single sometimes speech spondee stanza streets style Tell the story tence things thought tion told topic sentence town transition trochee verse whole words Write
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Página 433 - To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted...
Página 385 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Página 480 - Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she ; The Heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be.
Página 481 - By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest ; for 'tis thine own : And tumble up and down what thou find'st there.
Página 11 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 19 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face. That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 330 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 134 - 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 371 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face: But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: So Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Página 481 - THERE is a change — and I am poor; Your Love hath been, nor long ago, A Fountain at my fond Heart's door, Whose only business was to flow; And flow it did; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need.