Everyday Rhetoric, Or, Things Rhetorical the College Student Should Unfailingly Know: A Book Designed Primarily for College Freshmen, But Practical Also for High School Purposes and for General Daily ReferenceDavis Press, 1915 - 88 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
A. J. C. Hare adjective adverb apostrophe Austen Bicycle of Cathay Boston Transcript Bret Harte Burney capitalized Century Magazine college spirit comma common custom dash Diary Dickens Dictionary Eliot employed English error exclamation point expression following illustration Framley Parsonage Gaskell Howells hyphen idea idiom instance Interrogation Point Johnson June Kokoro Lady lain Landlord at Lion's Latin Letters by A. J. C. Literary Values literature look Lowell Madame D'Arblay main statement Marble Faun Mary Barton Mating of Lydia means never newspapers Nicholas Nickleby Note noun omitted paragraph parentheses phrase Pickwick Papers plural Pook's Hill preceded pronoun pronunciation properly Puck of Pook's punctuation quotation marks reader rhetorical Right Roman Holidays Scribner's Magazine semicolon simile singular speech spelling split infinitive student syllable Thackeray things thought tion Trollope usage Vanity Fair verb Victorian Era William Hamilton Gibson word writer Wrong
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 76 - Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars ; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy!
Seite 80 - Oh ! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire ; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Seite 81 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Seite 78 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Seite 71 - It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him. Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
Seite 73 - This is the best of me ; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved, and hated, like another ; my life was as the vapour, and is not ; but this I saw and knew : this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.
Seite 81 - For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.
Seite 77 - And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul : but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Seite 67 - And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks : and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
Seite 72 - ... them, and entirely ashamed of ourselves if we make no good use of them. But we make the worst possible use if we allow them to usurp the place of true books; for, strictly speaking, they are not books at all, but merely letters or newspapers in good print. Our friend's letter may be delightful, or necessary, to-day; whether worth keeping or not, is to be considered. The newspaper may be entirely proper at breakfast time, but assuredly it is not reading for all day.