Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition (advanced Course)W. Small, Lee and Shepard, 1893 - 222 Seiten |
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... successful teacher of English Composition , " that the true way to achieve clearness , force , and elegance in our English is not to study the rules . laid down in the rhetorics , but to become familiar with writing that is clear ...
... successful teacher of English Composition , " that the true way to achieve clearness , force , and elegance in our English is not to study the rules . laid down in the rhetorics , but to become familiar with writing that is clear ...
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... successful resistance to it is well - nigh impos- sible . On the other hand , if he is indifferent about resist- ing it , his fancied English will , a thousand to one , be chequered with solecisms , crudenesses , and piebald jargon , of ...
... successful resistance to it is well - nigh impos- sible . On the other hand , if he is indifferent about resist- ing it , his fancied English will , a thousand to one , be chequered with solecisms , crudenesses , and piebald jargon , of ...
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... success of it and used to wish that I might . But I think it is like other things that a person does . I think that ... successful in its undertakings . " We have had letters from President Harrison , Mr. Blaine , and Mr. Cleveland ...
... success of it and used to wish that I might . But I think it is like other things that a person does . I think that ... successful in its undertakings . " We have had letters from President Harrison , Mr. Blaine , and Mr. Cleveland ...
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... success for him are less strong than his drink . " This has been called a campaign of education , let us hope in concluding it will prove itself worthy of its title . " II . I. Are the following passages prolix ? If they are , how could ...
... success for him are less strong than his drink . " This has been called a campaign of education , let us hope in concluding it will prove itself worthy of its title . " II . I. Are the following passages prolix ? If they are , how could ...
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... successful . " But his difficulty in getting into Parliament is not nearly as odd as his wish to get in . During his whole official life he has never lost an opportunity of repudiating the idea that he was or ever could be anybody's ...
... successful . " But his difficulty in getting into Parliament is not nearly as odd as his wish to get in . During his whole official life he has never lost an opportunity of repudiating the idea that he was or ever could be anybody's ...
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Æneid Ahimaaz American Anglo-Saxon Aristotle authors beauty called Celt CHAPTER character clauses clear coherence common definite Dictionary difference Divine Comedy effect Elegance elements of style emotions Emphasis English essay example EXERCISE expression fact faults feel following extracts following passages give Greek habit halma hand human hydrazines idea idiom illustrated instance instructor interest J. H. Newman king language Latin learning Literature living logical loose sentence matter means ment merely metaphor metonymy mind nation nature never Notice noun paragraph periodic sentence persons Philistine phrases poetry principles produced Professor pronouns prose punctuation Quatrevingt-Treize reader Rhetoric rule schools senatorial courtesy sense short sentence solecisms speak speech structure student success sure synecdoche taste tence theme things thought tion unity unto verb vocabulary W. E. Henley whole composition writing young
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Seite 119 - preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often
Seite 202 - no more escape than his coat-sleeve can suddenly fall into a new set of folds. On the whole, it is best he should not escape. It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
Seite 208 - My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old
Seite 70 - Now these Pilgrims, as I said, must needs go through this Fair. Well, so they did; but behold, even as they entered into the Fair, all the people in the Fair were moved, and the Town itself, as it were, in a hubbub about them; and that for several reasons.
Seite 36 - Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water will it bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Seite 204 - lamque faces et saxa volant — furor arma ministrat — ; Turn, pietate gravem ac mentis si forte virum quern Conspexere, silent arrectisque auribus adstant ; Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet : Sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postquam Prospiciens genitor coeloque invectus aperto, Flectit equos, curruque volans dat lora secundo.
Seite 94 - of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this; but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world
Seite 148 - Rubro sanguine rivos Lascivi suboles gregis. Te flagrantis atrox hora Caniculae Nescit tangere: tu frigus amabile Fessis vomere tauris Praebes, et pecori vago. Fies nobilium tu quoque fontium, Me dicente cavis impositam. ilicem Saxis, unde loquaces Lymphae desiliunt tuae.
Seite 67 - And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace and drew near. And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings. And the
Seite 66 - A bystander advised. One of those omnipresent characters who, as if in pursuance of some previous arrangement, are certain to be encountered in the vicinity when an accident occurs, ventured the suggestion. He died. He deceased, he passed out of existence, his spirit quitted its earthly habitation, winged its way to eternity, shook off its burden, etc. 2.