A Text-book on RhetoricClark & Maynard, 1888 |
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... light ; or ( 2 ) an adverb modifier ; as , At Yorktown , the Revolution ended . Without its prep- osition the noun may be used adverbially and become ( 1 ) a so - called dative object ; as , Hull refused Charles I. ad- mittance ; and ...
... light ; or ( 2 ) an adverb modifier ; as , At Yorktown , the Revolution ended . Without its prep- osition the noun may be used adverbially and become ( 1 ) a so - called dative object ; as , Hull refused Charles I. ad- mittance ; and ...
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... light . 4. The ancient Roman went to bed early , simply be- cause his worthy mother Earth could not afford him candles . 5. I lisped in numbers , for the numbers came . 6. Where there is a well - ballasted paragraph , solid in matter ...
... light . 4. The ancient Roman went to bed early , simply be- cause his worthy mother Earth could not afford him candles . 5. I lisped in numbers , for the numbers came . 6. Where there is a well - ballasted paragraph , solid in matter ...
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... light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs from holy writ . Direction . — Write sentences and expand them to illustrate the points made above . When you can , illustrate , as above , more than one point in a sentence ...
... light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs from holy writ . Direction . — Write sentences and expand them to illustrate the points made above . When you can , illustrate , as above , more than one point in a sentence ...
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... light upon the men . In George Eliot's novels the men throw light upon the women . LESSON 21 . SYNTHESIS OF SENTENCES INTO PARAGRAPHS . You are now acquainted with all the parts of speech , and have used them in their various offices ...
... light upon the men . In George Eliot's novels the men throw light upon the women . LESSON 21 . SYNTHESIS OF SENTENCES INTO PARAGRAPHS . You are now acquainted with all the parts of speech , and have used them in their various offices ...
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... light frame . A disorder prevented the use of ordinary remedies . Toɑ late to take shelter behind a general disapproval of a custom recognized by his professional brethren and countenanced by himself . H. presided at the annual banquet ...
... light frame . A disorder prevented the use of ordinary remedies . Toɑ late to take shelter behind a general disapproval of a custom recognized by his professional brethren and countenanced by himself . H. presided at the annual banquet ...
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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...