School Composition: Being Advanced Language-lessons for Grammar SchoolsHarper & Brothers, 1876 - 158 Seiten |
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75 cents Adjective clause adjunct adverbial clause Alphonso animals Anthon's antiquity arrangement barrel battle of Actium beauty birds Cæsar called Campania character Cicero Circumlocution Cloth colon Columbus comma complex sentence composition compound sentence conjunction connection construction contains earth effects English Notes Engravings evil EXAMPLE Exercise in Composing expression figure of language following sentences friar pointed friends friendship Grammar Greek happiness HENRY DRISLER History ILLUSTRATIONS introduced invention JACOB ABBOTT James Thornhill Julius Cæsar kind King Latin LL.D Loomis's meaning ment Metaphor Metonymy Milton moral morning nations nature ness Noun clause object omission paragraph period Periphrasis phrases pleasure predicate principal pronoun propositions Roman rule Saxon School and Family semicolon sense separated Sheep extra SIMILE simple sentence SMITH speech statement style subordinate Synecdoche taste tautology tence thing thou thought tion trees truth unity verb virtue vols words Write six sentences
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Seite 56 - The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Seite 118 - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice : but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Seite 57 - He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Seite 56 - He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice.
Seite 108 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Seite 99 - OF Man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos.
Seite 108 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Seite 105 - The subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings; the overthrow of their host, and the punishment of their crime ; the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures ; their original happiness and innocence, their forfeiture...
Seite 54 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Seite 149 - I am glad, answered the bee, to hear you grant at least that I am come honestly by my wings and my voice ; for then, it seems, I am obliged to Heaven alone for my flights and my music ; and Providence would never have bestowed on me two such gifts, without designing them for the noblest ends. I visit indeed all the flowers and blossoms of the field and garden...