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... passages . A reading book may be used for the purpose . To obtain suitable exercises for practice in writing English , is a prime consideration with the teacher . Many kinds of exercises have been suggested ; and there must always be a ...
... passages . A reading book may be used for the purpose . To obtain suitable exercises for practice in writing English , is a prime consideration with the teacher . Many kinds of exercises have been suggested ; and there must always be a ...
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... passages containing good mat- ter , but in some respects imperfectly worded , to be amended according to the laws and the proprieties of style . Our older writers might be extensively , although not exclusively , drawn upon for this ...
... passages containing good mat- ter , but in some respects imperfectly worded , to be amended according to the laws and the proprieties of style . Our older writers might be extensively , although not exclusively , drawn upon for this ...
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... passage from Macaulay ,. 327 330 333 XV . Confused chain of reasoning from Campbell's Rhetoric ,. 335 XVI . Passage from Adam Smith . - Exposition applied to Moral Suasion , ... XVII . Oratorical passage from Demosthenes on the Crown ...
... passage from Macaulay ,. 327 330 333 XV . Confused chain of reasoning from Campbell's Rhetoric ,. 335 XVI . Passage from Adam Smith . - Exposition applied to Moral Suasion , ... XVII . Oratorical passage from Demosthenes on the Crown ...
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... passage from Lucretius contains a fine harmony , and also a circumstance that jars on the mind : — " Sweet it is , when the winds are agitating the waters on a wide sea , to witness from the land the spectacle of another's distress ...
... passage from Lucretius contains a fine harmony , and also a circumstance that jars on the mind : — " Sweet it is , when the winds are agitating the waters on a wide sea , to witness from the land the spectacle of another's distress ...
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... passages : — A second Daniel come to judgment . The stream of time , which is continually washing the dissolu- ble fabric of other poets , passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare . The soul of man is like the rolling world ...
... passages : — A second Daniel come to judgment . The stream of time , which is continually washing the dissolu- ble fabric of other poets , passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare . The soul of man is like the rolling world ...
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abstract addressed Antithesis arrangement bay color beauty brevity called character circumstances clause comparison composition concrete concrete Extract connection consonants contrast degree Demosthenes described effect emotion English epigram example excitement exposition expression fact figures of similarity force genius give harmony heaven Hence History Horace Walpole human humor HYPERBOLE Iliad illustration implied impression instances iteration kind knowledge language ludicrous meaning melody ment metaphors method metonymy mind mode moral mountains narrative nations nature nuendo objects obverse orator oratory Ossian pain paragraph passage pathos periphrasis person personification phatic Plato pleasure Pleonasm poet poetic poetry political predicate principle reference sense sentence sentiment simile sions Socrates sometimes sound stars statement strength style sublime subordinate suggest syllables Synecdoche tautologies tence tender feeling things thou thought tion Transferred Epithet truth variety verb vowels words
Popular passages
Page 262 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 102 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties ; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections ; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Page 65 - As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up ; so man lieth down, and riseth not : till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 341 - Sovran Blanc ? The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful form ! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above, Deep is the air, and dark, substantial, black ; An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look...
Page 293 - The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong guard Of her chaste person, and a faithful mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard ; Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward; And, when she waked, he waited diligent, With humble service to her will prepared : From her fair eyes he took commandement, And ever by her looks conceived her intent.
Page 307 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by ' the pleasures of the imagination,' or ' fancy,' (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view, or when we call .up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.
Page 72 - I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
Page 91 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 220 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men . how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 220 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...