English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises, Designed for Schools and Private TuitionD. Appleton, 1856 - 344 Seiten |
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... principles and prac- tice and of grammatical rules , which , for the most part , are not adequate to the composite character and varied idiom of English speech . This is far from being enough to give the needful knowledge of what is the ...
... principles and prac- tice and of grammatical rules , which , for the most part , are not adequate to the composite character and varied idiom of English speech . This is far from being enough to give the needful knowledge of what is the ...
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... principles of their magnificent language . But in Wordsworth is the English tongue seen al- most in its perfection ; its powers of delicate expression , its flexible idioms , its vast compass , the rich variety of its rhythms , being ...
... principles of their magnificent language . But in Wordsworth is the English tongue seen al- most in its perfection ; its powers of delicate expression , its flexible idioms , its vast compass , the rich variety of its rhythms , being ...
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... complete , he hopes it will be found to contain principles suffi- ciently suggestive to enable those who use it to continue the study to any extent for themselves . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION SECTION I. ( Generic and Specific Synonymes.
... complete , he hopes it will be found to contain principles suffi- ciently suggestive to enable those who use it to continue the study to any extent for themselves . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION SECTION I. ( Generic and Specific Synonymes.
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... principle by which a distinction may be established between them . It is of no weight to argue , that there is no necessity for the study of verbal distinctions , because many writers have com- posed with accuracy and elegance , who ...
... principle by which a distinction may be established between them . It is of no weight to argue , that there is no necessity for the study of verbal distinctions , because many writers have com- posed with accuracy and elegance , who ...
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... principle . In studying lan- guage we should never lose sight of the fact , that it is the visible and audible ... principles can we safely proceed in our investigations . Though many scholars have displayed wonderful ingenuity and ...
... principle . In studying lan- guage we should never lose sight of the fact , that it is the visible and audible ... principles can we safely proceed in our investigations . Though many scholars have displayed wonderful ingenuity and ...
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action active ancient appear beauty Brougham Castle cause character Cleop common Comus Coriolanus Cymbeline death difference difficulty distinction doth duty earth endeavour English evil Excursion Exercise exists expression fault fear feeling former frequently friends give habit Hamlet happy hath heart heaven Henry IV Henry VIII hope human idea intensive Julius Cæsar King John King Lear knowledge labour language Laodamia latter Liberty live look Macb Macbeth meaning MILTON mind moral nature never night o'er object observed Othello ourselves pain passions passive peace perceive persons pleasure possess praise principle reason Rich Richard III Roman Romeo and Juliet Rylstone sense signifies Sonnets soul speak species spirit strength style synonymous temper Tempest thee things thou thought tion truth Twelfth Night verbs virtue voice whole Winter's Tale words WORDSWORTH writing
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Seite 114 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Seite 79 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Seite 78 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species') to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Seite iii - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Seite 134 - The old Man still stood talking by my side; But now his voice to me was like a stream Scarce heard; nor word from word could I divide; And the whole body of the Man did seem Like one whom I had met with in a dream; Or like a man from some far region sent, To give me human strength, by apt admonishment.
Seite 208 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard, sonorous cadences ! whereby, To his belief, the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Seite 83 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air. Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the...
Seite 329 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Seite 291 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And.
Seite 181 - Not for a moment could I now behold A smiling sea, and be what I have been: The feeling of my loss will ne'er be old ; This, which I know, I speak with mind serene.