English Lessons for English PeopleSeeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1871 - 292 páginas |
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... truth ( carefully recorded in most English Grammars , and often inflicted as a task upon younger pupils ) that the plural of cherub is cherubim , and the feminine of bull is cow . To smooth the reader's way through these difficulties is ...
... truth ( carefully recorded in most English Grammars , and often inflicted as a task upon younger pupils ) that the plural of cherub is cherubim , and the feminine of bull is cow . To smooth the reader's way through these difficulties is ...
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... truth . For - give , to give away ; fore - done ( Spencer ) , made away with , wearied . This must be distinguished from Fore- , beforehand ; Gain- ( a - gainst ) , opposition ; fore - tell . gain - say . With- ( not our modern with ...
... truth . For - give , to give away ; fore - done ( Spencer ) , made away with , wearied . This must be distinguished from Fore- , beforehand ; Gain- ( a - gainst ) , opposition ; fore - tell . gain - say . With- ( not our modern with ...
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... truth . " In the same way extravagant , though used by Shakspeare in the sense of wandering , " now means a particular kind of wandering , a wandering beyond the bounds of economy . Exorbitant in Latin meant " out of the way , " in ...
... truth . " In the same way extravagant , though used by Shakspeare in the sense of wandering , " now means a particular kind of wandering , a wandering beyond the bounds of economy . Exorbitant in Latin meant " out of the way , " in ...
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... truth , and grace , Look in that breast , most dirty D― ! be fair , Say can you find out one such lodger there ? Pope . Note how in the following passage , a colloquial and some- what ungraceful name for a flower is not introduced ...
... truth , and grace , Look in that breast , most dirty D― ! be fair , Say can you find out one such lodger there ? Pope . Note how in the following passage , a colloquial and some- what ungraceful name for a flower is not introduced ...
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... truth to vividness , in other words , a little exaggeration , is not uncommon in speech . While speaking , the speaker can explain himself if he perceives that he is not understood ; this cannot be done in writing . Hence speech is more ...
... truth to vividness , in other words , a little exaggeration , is not uncommon in speech . While speaking , the speaker can explain himself if he perceives that he is not understood ; this cannot be done in writing . Hence speech is more ...
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accented syllable alliteration alliterative ambiguity amphibrachic anapæstic archaic argument avoided ballad blank verse called character common conversation couplet Cowper dactylic defined definition didactic composition disyllabic Dryden early English poetry effect elevated Eliminates Elizabethan emphatic English poetry epithets example excess express extra syllable fault foot forcible four accents give Greek hand Hence iamb iambic illustrate imaginative incidents induction infer instance Julius Cæsar kind language Latin less license meaning Metaphor Metrical Accent Milton monosyllable narration natural o'er object obscurity oppression oratory Paradise Lost passion pause perhaps periphrasis Personification picturesque pleasure plough Plutarch poem poetic diction poets Pope predicate pronounced prose rhyming couplet rhythm Richard II rule sense sentence Shakspeare sighing simile slang slurring sometimes sound speak speaker speech stanza syllables Tennyson thou thought three-accent tion trisyllabic metre trochaic trochee truth unaccented syllable unemphatic accent verb verse vowel words write