Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All GradesHarper & Bros., 1857 |
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... kind of black cloud , hovering over the field . After taking a short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties ...
... kind of black cloud , hovering over the field . After taking a short round , they settled again , and presently rose again in the same manner . I dare say there were hundreds of them . Tutor . Perhaps so ; for , in the fenny counties ...
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... kind of wharf , built of stones , near the bathing place , and , happening to stoop over too far to look at some eels , that were gliding through the water below , he lost his balance and fell in . Nobody was near but Guido , and he ...
... kind of wharf , built of stones , near the bathing place , and , happening to stoop over too far to look at some eels , that were gliding through the water below , he lost his balance and fell in . Nobody was near but Guido , and he ...
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... kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used on the word alone , becomes a question . " Pleased thou shalt hear , and thou alóne shalt hear ? " But , if the grave accent be placed on the word ...
... kind of accent which is used ; thus , the following sentence if the acute accent be used on the word alone , becomes a question . " Pleased thou shalt hear , and thou alóne shalt hear ? " But , if the grave accent be placed on the word ...
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... . Homo , of one kind . Hydro , water . Hyper , over . In , Im , Il , not , with an adje tive , into , with a verb , on . Inter , among . ALPHABETICAL SYNOPSIS OF AFFLAS . AFFIXES TO AFFIXES . Are 36 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... . Homo , of one kind . Hydro , water . Hyper , over . In , Im , Il , not , with an adje tive , into , with a verb , on . Inter , among . ALPHABETICAL SYNOPSIS OF AFFLAS . AFFIXES TO AFFIXES . Are 36 AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... kind just enumerated , the words strictly synonomous are few , yet it is often the case that one word of similar meaning may be substituted in a sentence for another , without materially altering the idea intended to be expressed . Thus ...
... kind just enumerated , the words strictly synonomous are few , yet it is often the case that one word of similar meaning may be substituted in a sentence for another , without materially altering the idea intended to be expressed . Thus ...
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Page 104 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Page 403 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 372 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Page 294 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 403 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 404 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 402 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Page 124 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction : once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Page 294 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. " The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow thro' the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.