English Composition & Essay-writing...Longmans, Green & Company, 1910 - 113 pages |
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... true sentence , then , is that it should make one distinct statement . This , of course , does not re- strict the length of a sentence . A good sentence may contain three or thirty words indifferently so long as there is but one main ...
... true sentence , then , is that it should make one distinct statement . This , of course , does not re- strict the length of a sentence . A good sentence may contain three or thirty words indifferently so long as there is but one main ...
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... true of single words is equally true of adjectival or adverbial clauses , however long . For example : " A brooch was lost representing Diana hunting in a Sea Point tramcar , on Saturday last , " is made ambiguous by misplacing the ...
... true of single words is equally true of adjectival or adverbial clauses , however long . For example : " A brooch was lost representing Diana hunting in a Sea Point tramcar , on Saturday last , " is made ambiguous by misplacing the ...
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... true beginning of our end . Consider , then , we come but in despight . We do not come Our true intent is . We are not here . you as minding to content you , All for your delight , That you should here repent The actors are at hand ...
... true beginning of our end . Consider , then , we come but in despight . We do not come Our true intent is . We are not here . you as minding to content you , All for your delight , That you should here repent The actors are at hand ...
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... true sense of the different values of words . Not set rules can take the place of this discipline . It should be pursued with the critical faculties on the alert for nice shades of meaning , subtle effects of emphasis , and fine touches ...
... true sense of the different values of words . Not set rules can take the place of this discipline . It should be pursued with the critical faculties on the alert for nice shades of meaning , subtle effects of emphasis , and fine touches ...
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... true , the metaphor is allowable . This test applied to such a metaphor as the following at once exhibits its absurdity : " The pale face of the English soldier is the backbone of our army in India " . The comparison here implied is ...
... true , the metaphor is allowable . This test applied to such a metaphor as the following at once exhibits its absurdity : " The pale face of the English soldier is the backbone of our army in India " . The comparison here implied is ...
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Page 67 - AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Page 63 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains ; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the Day joins the past Eternity ; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest ! XXVIII.
Page 63 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 36 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Page 36 - Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 25 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 41 - This objection was at once overruled. Trundle had a couple of pair, and the fat boy announced that there were half-a-dozen more down stairs: whereat Mr. Winkle expressed exquisite delight, and looked exquisitely uncomfortable. Old Wardle led the way to a pretty large sheet of ice; and the fat boy and Mr. Weller, having shovelled and swept away the snow which had fallen on it during the night, Mr.
Page 65 - 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 : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient...
Page 38 - Then I told what a tall, upright, graceful person their great-grandmother Field once was; and how in her youth she was esteemed the best dancer — here Alice's little right foot played an involuntary movement, till, upon my looking grave, it desisted — the best dancer, I was saying, in the...
Page 81 - Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.