A Text-book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with Exhaustive Practice in CompositionClark & Maynard, 1880 - 276 páginas |
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... verb which means to flow or to speak . Were we to name the study now , it is possible that we should take some word which means to write . But rhetoric was studied before writing be- came general , and ages and ages before printing was ...
... verb which means to flow or to speak . Were we to name the study now , it is possible that we should take some word which means to write . But rhetoric was studied before writing be- came general , and ages and ages before printing was ...
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... verb in the plural -the Greek noun in the neuter did not ; or why English words should be spelled and accented and pronounced as they now are— they have not always been . The reason why these things are as they are is , that the people ...
... verb in the plural -the Greek noun in the neuter did not ; or why English words should be spelled and accented and pronounced as they now are— they have not always been . The reason why these things are as they are is , that the people ...
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... verb , may be brought into the sentence , and become ( 1 ) a subject ; as , To err is human ; ( 2 ) a complement ; as , The command is to forgive , The Bible teaches us to forgive , The teacher made the pupil ( to ) forgive ; ( 3 ) an ...
... verb , may be brought into the sentence , and become ( 1 ) a subject ; as , To err is human ; ( 2 ) a complement ; as , The command is to forgive , The Bible teaches us to forgive , The teacher made the pupil ( to ) forgive ; ( 3 ) an ...
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... may be used in a sentence , in the sev- eral offices indicated in Lesson 2 ; and any verb or ad- jective in the sentence may be modified by more than one adverb . Direction . - Point out the offices of the parts 24 Invention .
... may be used in a sentence , in the sev- eral offices indicated in Lesson 2 ; and any verb or ad- jective in the sentence may be modified by more than one adverb . Direction . - Point out the offices of the parts 24 Invention .
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... verbs of phrase modifiers and all other modifiers may themselves be modified . Direction . - Point out and describe the modifiers in these sentences , particularly all those which modify other modifiers or parts of them , and justify ...
... verbs of phrase modifiers and all other modifiers may themselves be modified . Direction . - Point out and describe the modifiers in these sentences , particularly all those which modify other modifiers or parts of them , and justify ...
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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.