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... less serious evil than to require pupils systematically to set about the debase- ment of noble literary work . In true poetry , the form in which the material is cast may be assumed to be the most perfect attainable ; and to convert it ...
... less serious evil than to require pupils systematically to set about the debase- ment of noble literary work . In true poetry , the form in which the material is cast may be assumed to be the most perfect attainable ; and to convert it ...
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... less common now than it was in the preceding century ; and in the writers of that period sentences may often be met with which , to our ear , would be improved by the substitution of a Demon- strative for a Relative Pronoun , e.g.— " A ...
... less common now than it was in the preceding century ; and in the writers of that period sentences may often be met with which , to our ear , would be improved by the substitution of a Demon- strative for a Relative Pronoun , e.g.— " A ...
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... less bituminous , & c . EXERCISE 19 . THE SHEPHERD'S DOG . NOTES . - The shepherd's dog supposed by some to be the ancestor of many other varieties of dog . Scotch kind called colley dogs . To what dangers are sheep exposed in wild and ...
... less bituminous , & c . EXERCISE 19 . THE SHEPHERD'S DOG . NOTES . - The shepherd's dog supposed by some to be the ancestor of many other varieties of dog . Scotch kind called colley dogs . To what dangers are sheep exposed in wild and ...
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... less serious fault than obscurity . Young writers are often unduly afraid of repeating the same word , and require to be reminded that it is always better to use the right word over again , than to replace it by a wrong one : -and a ...
... less serious fault than obscurity . Young writers are often unduly afraid of repeating the same word , and require to be reminded that it is always better to use the right word over again , than to replace it by a wrong one : -and a ...
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... less glaring than in the preceding in- stances but all possibility of misconception or hesitation as to the meaning would be removed , by bringing the Pronoun closer to its antecedent , thus : - " ... she gave them some delusive ...
... less glaring than in the preceding in- stances but all possibility of misconception or hesitation as to the meaning would be removed , by bringing the Pronoun closer to its antecedent , thus : - " ... she gave them some delusive ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
adjective adverb Alison antecedent antithesis appear Austrian Empire better Burke Cæsar called Charles charm chimæras clause Clitus CO-ORDINATE SENTENCES colour conjunction Construct six Simple Cromwell death denotes effect elegant elephant England English Essay EXERCISE expression fact fault fleet following examples following instances following passage French Gibbon GRAMMAR hath HISTORY horse imagination Indicative Jeremy Taylor kind king lamb language Latin less London Lord Lord Melbourne Lothair master means metaphor metonymy mind nature noun Old English poetry paragraph Parmenio perhaps person phrase plural poetry Points of story Post 8vo Predicate preposition present prose Pusignan referred Relative Pronoun relative sentence RING OF GYGES Roman Rowley scarcely scene Sentences connected Shaw ship six Simple Sentences sometimes speaking student style Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood things thou thought tion Torbay verb verbal noun whole Woodcuts word writer
Passagens conhecidas
Página 123 - 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 had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 122 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 121 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Página 158 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 32 - Far in the bosom of Helvellyn, Remote from public Road or Dwelling, Pathway, or cultivated land ; From trace of human foot or hand. There, sometimes does a leaping Fish Send through the Tarn a lonely cheer...
Página 165 - Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things.
Página 130 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Página 34 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 168 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.