Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 páginas |
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... whole acres of reeds by settling on them . This disposition of starlings to fly in close swarms was remarked even by Homer , who compares the foe flying from one of his heroes , to a cloud of starlings retiring dismayed at the approach ...
... whole acres of reeds by settling on them . This disposition of starlings to fly in close swarms was remarked even by Homer , who compares the foe flying from one of his heroes , to a cloud of starlings retiring dismayed at the approach ...
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... whole ; seen , scene , seine ; stile , style ; straight , strait ; waist , waste ; bell , belle ; sell , cell ; herd , heard ; wring , ring ; aught , ought ; lessen , lesson ; profit , prophet ; choler , collar ; well , ( a noun ...
... whole ; seen , scene , seine ; stile , style ; straight , strait ; waist , waste ; bell , belle ; sell , cell ; herd , heard ; wring , ring ; aught , ought ; lessen , lesson ; profit , prophet ; choler , collar ; well , ( a noun ...
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... whole circle of vices like shadows towards the evening of life appear enormous to a thinking person . You are not to suppose that the fate either of single persons of empires or of the whole earth depends on the influence of the stars ...
... whole circle of vices like shadows towards the evening of life appear enormous to a thinking person . You are not to suppose that the fate either of single persons of empires or of the whole earth depends on the influence of the stars ...
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... whole place presenting the idea of a magnificent theatre , that was illuminated with a vast profusion of lights . An endless variety of characters , dispositions , and passions , diversifies the wide circle of human affairs . A crowd ...
... whole place presenting the idea of a magnificent theatre , that was illuminated with a vast profusion of lights . An endless variety of characters , dispositions , and passions , diversifies the wide circle of human affairs . A crowd ...
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... whole of which admirable satire , " says Mr. Booth , " is indis- pensable to every one who would study the principles of English Compo- sition : " " We may define amplification to be making the most of a thought ; it is the spinning ...
... whole of which admirable satire , " says Mr. Booth , " is indis- pensable to every one who would study the principles of English Compo- sition : " " We may define amplification to be making the most of a thought ; it is the spinning ...
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accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young