Introductory Text-book of English Composition, Based on Grammatical SynthesisOliver and Boyd, 1872 - 144 pages |
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abstract accent ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS adverb appointment Arithmetic arrangement Battle of Ivry Books Chapter character Civil Service Commissioners clerk complete compound sentence connexion construction containing correspondence Dictation Exercises Dimeters Edinburgh Edinburgh Academy effect Elector Palatine elements England ENGLISH COMPOSITION English Grammar examined example Exercise Exposition expressed feet figure of language following sentences French Geography Hexameters History irregular J. H. BURTON Julius Cæsar kind of composition King letter limit of age lines Lord Lord Salisbury Maitland meaning measure Metonymy mind Narration Narrative nature object outline paragraph Particular Description phrases pleasure points predicate principal clause principle prison proposition prose pupil question Reading-Book Receiver of Police Reflection reply rhyming alternately rules School Scotland sense Simple Regular stanza style subj subordinate clauses subs syllables Synecdoche Tetrameter thee thou thought tion Trimeter truth verb verse words writing
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Page 74 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 74 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 46 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossne.ss.
Page 88 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 105 - The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong guard Of her chaste person, and a faithful mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard ; Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward; And, when she waked, he waited diligent, With humble service to her will prepared : From her fair eyes he took commandement, And ever by her looks conceived her intent.
Page 94 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 112 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 46 - Oh ! what a revolution ! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall ! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom...
Page 88 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 99 - Then the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How they built their nests in Summer, Where they hid themselves in Winter, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them, "Hiawatha's Chickens." Of all beasts he learned the language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How the beavers built their lodges, Where the squirrels hid their acorns, How the reindeer ran so swiftly, Why the rabbit was so timid, Talked with them whene'er he...