Composition and Rhetoric by Practice: With Exercises Adapted for Use in High Schools and CollegesD.C. Heath & Company, 1890 - 329 strani |
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acatalectic accent adjective adverbial arranged beauty Bingen character cheerfulness clauses clear comma complex sentence composition compound sentence connected consists construction death dependent clauses diction DIRECTION effect emphatic English English Language example EXERCISE expression eyes feelings figures of speech following sentences give grammar hand happiness head heart iambic iambic pentameter Iambic trimeter idea illustrate kind king labor language letters live looked lyric poetry meaning melody ment metaphor Metonymy metre mind Narration nature never noun object omitted paragraph Periodic Sentences person PETER SCHOEFFER phrases pleasure poem poetic poetry preceding Lesson predicate present principles pronoun prose qualities relative pronoun Rhetorical Value rhyme rules scene School sense simile simple sentences sometimes statement style syllables synecdoche tell tences theme things thou thought tion TRANSPOSING variety verb virtue words write written
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Stran 203 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty : and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Stran 251 - Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
Stran 205 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Stran 213 - And, seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me.
Stran 198 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Stran 250 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Stran 187 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful...
Stran 262 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Stran 233 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
Stran 201 - Tell my brothers and companions, when they meet and crowd around, To hear my mournful story, in the pleasant vineyard ground, That we fought the battle bravely ; and when the day was done, Full many a corse lay ghastly pale beneath the setting sun. And...