The Study and practice of writing EnglishHoughton Mifflin, 1914 - 342 páginas |
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... Writing 17. Vulgarisms • 18. Hackneyed Expressions 19. Hackneyed Quotations IV . WRITTEN COMPOSITION 1. Steps in Theme - Writing 2. Outlines • 3. The Preparation of Manuscript 4. Marks for the Correction of Themes 5. Short - Theme ...
... Writing 17. Vulgarisms • 18. Hackneyed Expressions 19. Hackneyed Quotations IV . WRITTEN COMPOSITION 1. Steps in Theme - Writing 2. Outlines • 3. The Preparation of Manuscript 4. Marks for the Correction of Themes 5. Short - Theme ...
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... CORRESPONDENCE 1. Social and Friendly Letters . 2. Commercial Correspondence APPENDIX A Working Library of Books on Composition INDEX • • . 312 · . 319 • • · 329 . 335 THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF WRITING ENGLISH I ESTABLISHED USAGES CONTENTS.
... CORRESPONDENCE 1. Social and Friendly Letters . 2. Commercial Correspondence APPENDIX A Working Library of Books on Composition INDEX • • . 312 · . 319 • • · 329 . 335 THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF WRITING ENGLISH I ESTABLISHED USAGES CONTENTS.
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Gerhard Richard Lomer. THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF WRITING ENGLISH I ESTABLISHED USAGES 1. PUNCTUATION PUNCTUATION is a convenient mechanical device for indicating or assuring the unity , the coherence , or the emphasis implied in the written ...
Gerhard Richard Lomer. THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF WRITING ENGLISH I ESTABLISHED USAGES 1. PUNCTUATION PUNCTUATION is a convenient mechanical device for indicating or assuring the unity , the coherence , or the emphasis implied in the written ...
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... written with the hyphen . MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISE IN PUNCTUATION 1. It was hard work for the fish was a large one . 2. Children have you ever heard of Cinderella the beautiful girl who was treated unkindly by her cruel step - mother and ...
... written with the hyphen . MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISE IN PUNCTUATION 1. It was hard work for the fish was a large one . 2. Children have you ever heard of Cinderella the beautiful girl who was treated unkindly by her cruel step - mother and ...
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... written . 17. He went to Africa to shoot lions and his friends did not hear from him for more than a year . 18. It is n't very early now Mary she said I was up hours ago and I'm terribly hungry . 19. A tame crow he considered would be ...
... written . 17. He went to Africa to shoot lions and his friends did not hear from him for more than a year . 18. It is n't very early now Mary she said I was up hours ago and I'm terribly hungry . 19. A tame crow he considered would be ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abbreviation action adjective apostrophe arrangement BALDWIN Better C. L. English Composition C. S. Composition Oral characters College comma Composition and Rhetoric Correct definite Dictionary discourse drama Edgar Allan Poe English Prose EXERCISE Exposition expression figures of speech G. B. Shaw G. K. Chesterton GENUNG give given HERRICK and DAMON ideas inclose Incorrect indicate language literary material means ment method mind modify narration Nathaniel Hawthorne never NOTE noun omitted outline paragraph person play plot plural point of view Principles of Rhetoric pronoun punctuation quotation marks reader reference Rhetoric and English Rhetoric for Schools Rhetoric in Practice Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling rule Sarah Orne Jewett scene Selma Lagerlöf sentence Short Story singular Specimens student Study style suggestions synonyms thing Thomas Bailey Aldrich thought tion Undesirable unity usually verb W. B. Yeats W. D. Howells words Writing English York
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Página 307 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 93 - A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: But a just weight is his delight.
Página 307 - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 307 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 158 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Página 154 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered...
Página 306 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Página 155 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Página 306 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise. I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.
Página 162 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but, when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke the stalk, and,...