A Text-book on RhetoricMaynard, Merrill, & Company, 1896 |
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... telling place in his oral and written efforts . Having learned what thinking is , and what a sentence is as the embodiment of a thought and the instrument of its expression , the pupil is gradually led up through the construction of ...
... telling place in his oral and written efforts . Having learned what thinking is , and what a sentence is as the embodiment of a thought and the instrument of its expression , the pupil is gradually led up through the construction of ...
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... tell the truth , he haunted counting - rooms . A participle may be brought into the sentence , and be- come ( 1 ) an adjective modifier ; as , Air , expanding , rises ; ( 2 ) a complement ; as , The gladiator lay bleeding , Mirza saw ...
... tell the truth , he haunted counting - rooms . A participle may be brought into the sentence , and be- come ( 1 ) an adjective modifier ; as , Air , expanding , rises ; ( 2 ) a complement ; as , The gladiator lay bleeding , Mirza saw ...
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... tell what they modify , and justify the punctuation : 1. The tersest simplicity and a pregnant brevity of question and of reply were characteristics of the Spartans . 2. From every bush , from every fence , from cannon and muskets , a ...
... tell what they modify , and justify the punctuation : 1. The tersest simplicity and a pregnant brevity of question and of reply were characteristics of the Spartans . 2. From every bush , from every fence , from cannon and muskets , a ...
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... tell the truth and not to exaggerate , speaking honestly and not dissembling , no man has ever stood this test perfectly . 8. The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it . Direction . ― - Write simple ...
... tell the truth and not to exaggerate , speaking honestly and not dissembling , no man has ever stood this test perfectly . 8. The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it . Direction . ― - Write simple ...
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... tell what they modify , name the additional office , if any , that each connective performs , and justify the punctuation : - s I. Those who drink beer think beer . Rome was great only in what we call physical strength . um est 3 ...
... tell what they modify , name the additional office , if any , that each connective performs , and justify the punctuation : - s I. Those who drink beer think beer . Rome was great only in what we call physical strength . um est 3 ...
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Page 296 - That feelingly persuade me what I am.' Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything.
Page 137 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 318 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Page 305 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 200 - I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 320 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee ; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable...
Page 306 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee ; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.
Page 294 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 307 - On every side, In a thousand valleys far and wide, Fresh flowers ; while the sun shines warm, And the Babe leaps up on his Mother's arm...
Page 310 - We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May...