A Text-book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with Exhaustive Practice in CompositionClark & Maynard, 1880 - 276 páginas |
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... before you enter upon him . 12 . As we grow older , we think more and more of old persons and of old places and things . 13. Sometimes there is cinder in the iron , because there is cinder in the pay . 30 % Invention .
... before you enter upon him . 12 . As we grow older , we think more and more of old persons and of old places and things . 13. Sometimes there is cinder in the iron , because there is cinder in the pay . 30 % Invention .
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... person , the more necessary do tact and courtesy become . 4. The natural tendency to run ad- jectives together in triads is an instinctive effort of the mind to present a thought with the three dimensions that belong to every solid . 5 ...
... person , the more necessary do tact and courtesy become . 4. The natural tendency to run ad- jectives together in triads is an instinctive effort of the mind to present a thought with the three dimensions that belong to every solid . 5 ...
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... person or a fish to suck out the blood . 2. We are always glad to harness a force of nature to our work . 3. Drive a strange ox into a pasture , and there will always be a trial of strength between him and the leader of the herd . 4 ...
... person or a fish to suck out the blood . 2. We are always glad to harness a force of nature to our work . 3. Drive a strange ox into a pasture , and there will always be a trial of strength between him and the leader of the herd . 4 ...
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... person were found two bladders . These bladders were provided with a piece of pipe . With these bladders he had intended to assist himself across the moat . Beyond this moat a horse was wait- ing for him . My grandfather Titbottom ...
... person were found two bladders . These bladders were provided with a piece of pipe . With these bladders he had intended to assist himself across the moat . Beyond this moat a horse was wait- ing for him . My grandfather Titbottom ...
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... person is suddenly thrust into a strange position . Finds the place to fit him . Has committed a crime , perhaps . Sent to the State Prison . All the sharp conditions of the new life stamp themselves on his consciousness . Like a signet ...
... person is suddenly thrust into a strange position . Finds the place to fit him . Has committed a crime , perhaps . Sent to the State Prison . All the sharp conditions of the new life stamp themselves on his consciousness . Like a signet ...
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adjective clauses adverb clauses Ali Pasha amphibrach anapæst Anglo-Saxon Balthazar Gérard beauty cæsura called comma complex sentences compound sentences connected denote dependent clauses Direction Direction.-Point Direction.-Write sentences illustrating discourse English expression feeling feet figure figure of speech foot give grammar iambus imagery independent infinitive phrases intellect justify the punctuation kind language learned literature live loose sentence meaning metaphors metonymy metre mind modifiers nature never noun clauses observe these rules oration participle perspicuity poem poet poetry points preceding Lesson predicate prepositional phrases preterits principal word pronouns prose pupil quality of style relation rhetoric rhetorical value rhyme rhythm-accent Roman seen sense sentences containing SENTENCES INTO PARAGRAPHS simple sentences speak speech stand stream substituted syllable synecdoche SYNTHESIS OF SENTENCES teach tence theme things thou thought tion tongue topic trochee truth verb verse writing observe written
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Página 122 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Página 275 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song...
Página 273 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Página 262 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything.
Página 238 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 121 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 178 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the...
Página 175 - I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Página 124 - Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time Rest thee — there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime.
Página 259 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.