Literary selections for practice in spelling, compiled by R. LomasRobert Lomas 1876 - 100 pages |
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... persons who had given themselves up to literature , or to the task of pleasing the public , it seemed to me that the cir- cumstances which chiefly affected their happiness and character were those from which Horace has bestowed upon ...
... persons who had given themselves up to literature , or to the task of pleasing the public , it seemed to me that the cir- cumstances which chiefly affected their happiness and character were those from which Horace has bestowed upon ...
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... person will ever have who does not study composition in early life . Sir W. SCOTT , " Letters to his Son . " IMPORTANCE OF COLONIES . Without transmarine possessions no modern nation has held , or can hold , dominion of the sea ; and ...
... person will ever have who does not study composition in early life . Sir W. SCOTT , " Letters to his Son . " IMPORTANCE OF COLONIES . Without transmarine possessions no modern nation has held , or can hold , dominion of the sea ; and ...
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... person he is said to have resembled his grandfather , Edward IV . , who was the handsomest man in Europe . His form and bearing were princely ; and amidst the easy freedom of his address , his manner remained majestic . No knight in ...
... person he is said to have resembled his grandfather , Edward IV . , who was the handsomest man in Europe . His form and bearing were princely ; and amidst the easy freedom of his address , his manner remained majestic . No knight in ...
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... persons it appeared to be full when we left Glengariff , for a traveller from Bearhaven , and the five gentlemen from the yacht , took seats upon it with myself , and we fancied it was impossible that more than seven should travel by ...
... persons it appeared to be full when we left Glengariff , for a traveller from Bearhaven , and the five gentlemen from the yacht , took seats upon it with myself , and we fancied it was impossible that more than seven should travel by ...
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... persons , were the stag , roebuck , hare , and rabbit . The wolf , fox , and boar might be killed by any one with impunity , if found without the limits of the chase or forest . In falconry the wild duck and heron were the common quarry ...
... persons , were the stag , roebuck , hare , and rabbit . The wolf , fox , and boar might be killed by any one with impunity , if found without the limits of the chase or forest . In falconry the wild duck and heron were the common quarry ...
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Page 12 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.
Page 3 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 12 - I went up to a rising ground to look farther. I went up the shore and down the shore, but it was all one, I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to obse'rve if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot, toes, heel, and every part of a foot.
Page 90 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the...
Page 89 - ... it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of good-will in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 86 - The battle commenced with a cannonade in which the artillery of the Nabob did scarcely any execution, while the few field-pieces of the English produced great effect. Several of the most distinguished officers in Surajah Dowlah's service fell.
Page 92 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
Page 18 - The human figures which completed this landscape were in number two, partaking in their dress and appearance of that wild and rustic character which belonged to the woodlands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period.
Page 78 - His mind bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness for purposes of manly resistance ; but its suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner climates to admiration not unmingled with contempt.
Page 7 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller.