Composition and RhetoricHinds & Noble, 1903 - 387 páginas |
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... close by , an old dark - throated sparrow fell like a stone right before his nose , and all ruffled up , terrified , with despairing and pitiful cheep , it flung itself twice toward the open jaws of shining teeth . but all It sprang to ...
... close by , an old dark - throated sparrow fell like a stone right before his nose , and all ruffled up , terrified , with despairing and pitiful cheep , it flung itself twice toward the open jaws of shining teeth . but all It sprang to ...
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... close ; contented so to look On mists in idleness — to let fair things - Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook . He has his Winter too of pale misfeature , Or else he would forego his mortal nature . F JOHN KEATS . There is a dream , a ...
... close ; contented so to look On mists in idleness — to let fair things - Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook . He has his Winter too of pale misfeature , Or else he would forego his mortal nature . F JOHN KEATS . There is a dream , a ...
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... close to Christian , and wrestling with him , gave him a dreadful fall ; and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand . Then , said Apollyon , I am sure of thee now : and with that he had almost pressed him to death , so that ...
... close to Christian , and wrestling with him , gave him a dreadful fall ; and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand . Then , said Apollyon , I am sure of thee now : and with that he had almost pressed him to death , so that ...
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... close to their mothers , who were not much larger than Shetland ponies . They were of all colors , but there were more dark ones than light . Clara and I thought they were all pretty , especially the colts . We hated to think that the ...
... close to their mothers , who were not much larger than Shetland ponies . They were of all colors , but there were more dark ones than light . Clara and I thought they were all pretty , especially the colts . We hated to think that the ...
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... close and accurate , and , if it might be so , at the same time , not over prosaic : it is to the lover of poetry and nature , rather than to the student , that we ap- peal to enjoy and wonder at this great work , now for the first time ...
... close and accurate , and , if it might be so , at the same time , not over prosaic : it is to the lover of poetry and nature , rather than to the student , that we ap- peal to enjoy and wonder at this great work , now for the first time ...
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Página 15 - Homer ruled as his demesne : Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Página 85 - 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...
Página 300 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Página 83 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent, which is death to hide, Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide; "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, " God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his state Is kingly; thousands...
Página 303 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer; not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Página 200 - Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!
Página 198 - Laughed loud and long, and all the while His eyes went to and fro. "Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see, The Devil knows how to row.
Página 82 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
Página 248 - His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride, When they have slain her lover?
Página 303 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.