Composition--rhetoric--literature: A Four Year's Course for Secondary SchoolsB.H. Sanborn & Company, 1908 - 464 pages |
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action adjective adverbs argument Banquo beauty boys Brer Brer Fox cæsura character CHARLOTTE BRONTË clause clear coherence color definite Dermod Describe diction effect English essay example EXERCISE exposition expression extract flowers following passage FUTURE PERFECT TENSE give green humor iambic pentameter ideas Julius Cæsar kind King Lady language Latin letter literature living look Lycidas Macbeth means Milton minor premise narration narrative never night noun object outline paragraph periodic sentence phrases plural poem poetry preposition pronoun punctuation reader Rewrite rime Roger de Coverley scene Second Person Shakespeare Sir Ector sometimes sound speech story Study the following style SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllables tell TENSE First Person theme things Third Person thought tion topic sentence truth verb verse voice W. D. HOWELLS words writing written
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Page 362 - DURING THE WHOLE of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Page 288 - Blanc! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form ! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air, and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look...
Page 161 - Observe me, Sir Anthony. - I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman; for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or Algebra, or Simony, or Fluxions, or Paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning...
Page 258 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 196 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 280 - ... out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand And the stars in her hair were seven. Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem, No wrought flowers did adorn, But a white rose of Mary's gift, For service meetly worn; Her hair, that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.
Page 281 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 297 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...
Page 289 - When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle-blade ; And furious every charger neighed To join the dreadful revelry.
Page 189 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.