Constructive Exercises in EnglishLongmans, Green, and Company, 1909 - 154 Seiten |
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admirers alack ALICE MORSE EARLE Alter the emphasis American ANDREW LANG asked beauty Beowulf blank verse boys Burke called character Charlotte Brontë coast colonies common counts Company crowd dark Don Quixote England English Essays EXAMPLE exposition expression eyes Fables following passages France Freeling French FROUDE garden George given hath History hundred impression Joan of Arc Jocasta John king lady LAURENCE HUTTON letter literature look loose sentence Lord MACAULAY ment Messrs Milton Mohocks nature never night paragraphs period periodic sentence play poem poet preceding exercise Prince Prince Prigio proposition prose pupils round S. S. McClure Sancho sense Shakespeare short sentence Sing sorrow sold sorrow for money story Street study-hall teach tells term THACKERAY thegns Theuth thing thou thought tion topic-sentences truth wellaway wind Woe's words Write
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Seite 121 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Seite 142 - With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste? And set to work millions of spinning worms, That in their green shops weave the smooth-haired silk.
Seite 13 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Seite 121 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Seite 42 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of VOL.
Seite 150 - The advocates of Charles, like the advocates of other malefactors against whom overwhelming evidence is produced, generally decline all controversy about the facts, and content themselves with calling testimony to character. He had so many private virtues! And had James the Second no private virtues?
Seite 81 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Seite 12 - It will not be easy to find, in all the opulence of our language, a treatise so artfully variegated with successive representations of opposite probabilities, so enlivened with imagery, so brightened with illustrations.
Seite 153 - It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Seite 142 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?