A Text-book on RhetoricClark & Maynard, 1888 |
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... give a good reason for the particular grouping and wording he adopts . 3. See to it , also , that in the department called Qualities of Style , your pupils ( 1 ) understand the reason , or philosophy , of things , given in the long ...
... give a good reason for the particular grouping and wording he adopts . 3. See to it , also , that in the department called Qualities of Style , your pupils ( 1 ) understand the reason , or philosophy , of things , given in the long ...
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... gives a command of the vocabulary . Next to having something to say is the ability to impart it in apt words fitly arranged in the sentences , in sentences happily marshalled in the paragraph , in paragraphs standing to each other in ...
... gives a command of the vocabulary . Next to having something to say is the ability to impart it in apt words fitly arranged in the sentences , in sentences happily marshalled in the paragraph , in paragraphs standing to each other in ...
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... give the reason why mosquitoes and midges exist . 12. Whoever or whatever vio- lates a law of nature is punished . 13. It was life that he asked for . 14. The divisions which Lamb makes of the human race are two - the borrowers and the ...
... give the reason why mosquitoes and midges exist . 12. Whoever or whatever vio- lates a law of nature is punished . 13. It was life that he asked for . 14. The divisions which Lamb makes of the human race are two - the borrowers and the ...
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... give the connectives with their full functions : - 1. The colorless substance known in ancient times as bird- lime is the gluten remaining after the starch in flour has been washed away . 2. The convalescent changes sides oftener than a ...
... give the connectives with their full functions : - 1. The colorless substance known in ancient times as bird- lime is the gluten remaining after the starch in flour has been washed away . 2. The convalescent changes sides oftener than a ...
Page 32
... twelve citizens of Calais would give them- selves into his hands , Ed . III . promised to show mercy to the town . 19. The season must have been a rainy one , because vegetation is rank . 20. O thou invisible spirit of 32 Invention .
... twelve citizens of Calais would give them- selves into his hands , Ed . III . promised to show mercy to the town . 19. The season must have been a rainy one , because vegetation is rank . 20. O thou invisible spirit of 32 Invention .
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Page 239 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright.
Page 273 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 262 - 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 122 - 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 175 - The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under. And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. 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 269 - To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world and she to her nest,— In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Page 129 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 238 - I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o
Page 182 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 248 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...