Progressive Exercises in English CompositionR.S. Davis, 1850 - 143 páginas |
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Æneid Alliteration animal antithesis attention beautiful benevolence CÆSURA character collective noun composed composition compound sentence connected connexion Dacians Damon death Decebalus degree designed Dionysius dress earth effect EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE exercise express favor figurative language flax following sentences frequently give Grammar habits happiness History honor idea important intended kind Lesson XXV letter light live mankind manner material architecture meaning metaphor mind MODEL Modesty nature noun object particular passions Pearlash periphrasis persons perspicuity phrases pillar plain pleasure poem Pompeii present Pride principle pronoun proper propriety pupil Pythias regard relative pronoun religion require resemblance respect Romans rule scene sense sentence containing signify simple sentences sounds spondee style subjunctive mood syllables taste Tautology teacher tence term applied theme things thou thought tion Trajan truth unity verb verse virtue words Write a sentence youth
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Página 8 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Página 98 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Página 92 - ... poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind...
Página 70 - Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
Página 41 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
Página 42 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 85 - Avoid equivocal or ambiguous words. The following sentences are exceptionable in this respect. " As for such animals as are mortal or noxious, we have a right to destroy them.
Página 71 - Yet, fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream! by the village side; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen ; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.
Página 96 - But if we yet rise higher, and consider the fixed stars as so many vast oceans of flame, that are each of them attended with a different set of planets, and still discover new firmaments and...
Página 95 - A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.