The Elements of English CompositionWm. Whyte and Company, 1841 - 410 páginas |
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... Roman history ; yet the purity and gracefulness of his style are such , that no judicious writer afterwards dared to attempt the same subject . Cicero frequently mentions it as a very high enco- mium , that the celebrated Roman orators ...
... Roman history ; yet the purity and gracefulness of his style are such , that no judicious writer afterwards dared to attempt the same subject . Cicero frequently mentions it as a very high enco- mium , that the celebrated Roman orators ...
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... Roman Empire . Cæsar having in this manner made an example which he supposed was to overawe all the nations of that neighbourhod , he withdrew with his army . Ferguson's Hist . of the Roman Republic . - Who is the poet but lately ...
... Roman Empire . Cæsar having in this manner made an example which he supposed was to overawe all the nations of that neighbourhod , he withdrew with his army . Ferguson's Hist . of the Roman Republic . - Who is the poet but lately ...
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... Roman Empire . Magnus , with four thousand of his supposed accomplices , were put to death . - Ibid . Those whom the splendour of their rank , or the extent of their capacity , have placed upon the summit of human life , have not often ...
... Roman Empire . Magnus , with four thousand of his supposed accomplices , were put to death . - Ibid . Those whom the splendour of their rank , or the extent of their capacity , have placed upon the summit of human life , have not often ...
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... Roman Empire . His ignorance or severity were alike unworthy of the important office with which he was entrusted . He gave laws which , accord- ing to the lively expression of an orator , seemed to be written , not with ink , but with ...
... Roman Empire . His ignorance or severity were alike unworthy of the important office with which he was entrusted . He gave laws which , accord- ing to the lively expression of an orator , seemed to be written , not with ink , but with ...
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... Roman Empire . 3. Grammatical Errors in the Use of Participles . Among the number of grammatical errors , may we be permitted to reckon the use of the past tense active , as the participle perfect passive , in those verbs which admit of ...
... Roman Empire . 3. Grammatical Errors in the Use of Participles . Among the number of grammatical errors , may we be permitted to reckon the use of the past tense active , as the participle perfect passive , in those verbs which admit of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Æneid allegory ancient appear Aristotle attention beauty Beggar's Opera Born CHAP character Cicero composition consider critics degree Demosthenes diction died discourse Dissertation edit effect elegant eloquence employed Encyclopædia Britannica endeavour English English language Essay examples expression fancy figure genius grace Greek harmony hath haue Hist History honour human humour ideas imagination imitate instances Johnson kind labour language learned Lond Macedon mankind manner MDCCCXLI means ment metaphor mind nature never object observe occasion opinion ornament passage passion period person personification perspicuity phrases Plato pleasure Plutarch poetry poets possessed proper propriety prose racter reader reason religion remarkable resemblance Roman Roman Empire Roman Republic seems sense sentence sentiments Sermons shew simile simplicity sion Sir William Temple soul sound speak style taste tence things thou thought tion tragedy truth verse Virgil virtue words writers Xenophon
Passagens conhecidas
Página 188 - I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
Página 339 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 147 - Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Página 147 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Página 152 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love ; Behold, thou art fair ; Thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks : Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That appear from mount Gilead.
Página 11 - By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Página 140 - But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May.
Página 188 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Página 187 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Página 187 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...