Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time, Together with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary as an Aid to Systematic Literary Study, for Use in High and Normal Schools, Academies, Seminaries, &cHarper & Brothers, 1897 - 638 páginas |
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... kind of work here developed is given ) ; and it is one from which most valu- able results are anticipated . For surely such studies as are called for in the present work cannot fail to bring the pupil into close and friendly contact ...
... kind of work here developed is given ) ; and it is one from which most valu- able results are anticipated . For surely such studies as are called for in the present work cannot fail to bring the pupil into close and friendly contact ...
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... a furrow , a row ( from vertere , to turn ) ; hence a metrical line , and , by an extension of meaning , metrical composition . 6. Description , or descriptive writing , is that kind xii STUDIES IN ENGLish literATURE .
... a furrow , a row ( from vertere , to turn ) ; hence a metrical line , and , by an extension of meaning , metrical composition . 6. Description , or descriptive writing , is that kind xii STUDIES IN ENGLish literATURE .
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... kind of com- position in which an object of some degree of complexity is represented in language . I. Description is generally divided into two kinds : a . Objective description — referring to objects perceptible to the senses . b ...
... kind of com- position in which an object of some degree of complexity is represented in language . I. Description is generally divided into two kinds : a . Objective description — referring to objects perceptible to the senses . b ...
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... kind of com- position in which facts or principles are discussed , and the conclusion is reached by a process of reasoning . The expository art is applied to all the departments of human thought or knowledge ; hence expository ...
... kind of com- position in which facts or principles are discussed , and the conclusion is reached by a process of reasoning . The expository art is applied to all the departments of human thought or knowledge ; hence expository ...
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... of tact rather than of rule ; but so far as any rule can be given , the following may be serviceable . First , it is to be noted that a simile is a kind of 44 rhetorical proposition , and must , when fully expressed DEFINITIONS . xvii.
... of tact rather than of rule ; but so far as any rule can be given , the following may be serviceable . First , it is to be noted that a simile is a kind of 44 rhetorical proposition , and must , when fully expressed DEFINITIONS . xvii.
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abbey alliteration Analyze this sentence Anglo-Saxon Aurelian beauty Brutus Cćsar called character Cratchit dark death delight Dryden earth Edward the Confessor effect English epithet Etymology Explain expression eyes feelings figure of speech fire genius George Eliot give grace Grammatical construction hand hath hear heart heaven honorable human humor INTRODUCTION.-The Julius Cćsar kind of sentence king L'Allegro language light LITERARY ANALYSIS living look Lord manner meaning ment metaphor Milton mind nature never night o'er Observe Odenathus Palmyra paragraph phrase pleasure pleonasm poem poet poetry Point pride prose order rhetorically round Saracen scene Scrooge sense Shakespeare Shylock Sir Launfal Sir Roger smile soul sound spirit stanza style Supply the ellipsis sweet synecdoche synonymous tence Tetricus thee things thou thought Tiny Tim tion tomb truth verb voice words writing Zenobia
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Página 515 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Página 408 - Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world ; with kings, The powerful of the earth, — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 409 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings— yet — the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Página 197 - Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 243 - 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 71 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 6 - If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand, why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer,— Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves; than that Caesar were dead, to live all...
Página 295 - What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood...
Página 408 - Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace...
Página 397 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.