Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All GradesHarper & Bros., 1857 |
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... writer in his first attempts at composition ; to wit , the difficulty of obtaining idcas , or learning to think , and that of expressing them properly when obtained . There are those who profess to have been benefited by the assistance ...
... writer in his first attempts at composition ; to wit , the difficulty of obtaining idcas , or learning to think , and that of expressing them properly when obtained . There are those who profess to have been benefited by the assistance ...
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... writer then , it may boldly be asserted , that " No acquirement can equal that of composition in giving a power over the material of thought , and an apt- ness in all matters of arrangement , of inquest , Preface, iii Introduction, iv.
... writer then , it may boldly be asserted , that " No acquirement can equal that of composition in giving a power over the material of thought , and an apt- ness in all matters of arrangement , of inquest , Preface, iii Introduction, iv.
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... æquam " Viribus . " Or , in the translation of Mr. Francis : " Examine well , ye writers , weigh with care , What suits your genius , what your strength will bear . ' AIDS то ENGLISH COMPOSITION . I. OBJECTS AND THEIR PARTS INTRODUCTION .
... æquam " Viribus . " Or , in the translation of Mr. Francis : " Examine well , ye writers , weigh with care , What suits your genius , what your strength will bear . ' AIDS то ENGLISH COMPOSITION . I. OBJECTS AND THEIR PARTS INTRODUCTION .
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... writer be careful to use the proper word to express the idea which he wishes to communicate ; and when he is required to use a word , that he endeavor thereby to express no other idea than that , which the word is intended to convey ...
... writer be careful to use the proper word to express the idea which he wishes to communicate ; and when he is required to use a word , that he endeavor thereby to express no other idea than that , which the word is intended to convey ...
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... writer , not formally introduced as a quota- ion , and words and clauses expressing contrast or opposition , though closely connected in construction , are separated by a comma ; as , " I pity the man , who can travel from Dan to ...
... writer , not formally introduced as a quota- ion , and words and clauses expressing contrast or opposition , though closely connected in construction , are separated by a comma ; as , " I pity the man , who can travel from Dan to ...
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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.