Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History and Peculiarities of the English Language ... Adapted to Self Instruction, and the Use of Schools and CollegesD. Appleton, 1864 - 451 pagine |
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acatalectic adverb anapestic ancient argument avoided beautiful blank verse Cæsar called character Cicero classes clauses closing vowel comma composed composition connection consists constitute correct criticism degree denote discourse division effect emotion employed Enallage English epic poetry essay EXERCISE expression faculty fault figures following sentences genius Give examples Greek harmony humor iambic pentameter ideas Illustrate imagination introduced kind language LESSON letter literature Lysias means mind moral nature nouns objects observed ornaments parenthetical passage passions person Petrarch Philip of Macedon pleasure poem poet poetry present principles produced pronoun proper proposition prose punctuation Quintilian reader reason regard relating Repeat Rule respect restrictive clause rhetoric rhyme Saxon semicolon sense signify similes sometimes sound Staffa stanza style sublime syllables Syllepsis Taste tence term thee things thou thought tion trochee truth variety verb verse violated virtue words writer
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Pagina 269 - And e'en the story ran that he could gauge For e'en though vanquished he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rusties ranged around And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all
Pagina 260 - apricots, Which, like unruly children, make their sire Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight; Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou; and, like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth; All must be even in our government." 4. In Addison's Cato, Portius, bidding
Pagina 411 - of this his favorite metre :— " Tis hard' to say If greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging, ill; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, bat numbers err in this; Ten
Pagina 130 - we hope to enjoy rest neverending rest rest in which are concentrated all conceivable pleasures — Suddenly there came a tapping as of some one gently rapping rapping at my chamber door — Lochiel Lochiel beware of the day UNDER RULE
Pagina 96 - O Rome my country city of the soul The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires Men of Athens listen to my defence —Ye shades of the mighty dead listen to my invocation. UNDER § 102. An honest lawyer
Pagina 253 - saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. 5. Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, 0 maid of Inistore 1 Bend thy fair head over the waves, thou
Pagina 416 - still Ascribe all good, || to their improper, [ ill." " The dew was falling fast, || the stars | began to blink; I heard a voice; | it said, ||' Drink, | pretty creature, | drink I' And, | looking o'er the hedge, || before me I espied A snow-white mountain lamb, 1| with a maiden at its side." EXERCISE. I. Each of the following lines contains its own words
Pagina 307 - la lightnings owned his secret stings ; In one rude clash he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings." " With woful measures wan Despair— Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled; A solemn, strange, and mingled air,
Pagina 409 - mountain all unseen With the wild flock, that never needs a fold; Alone, o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ;— This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores uurolled.