Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practial Lessons on the Origin, History, and Pecularities of the English Language. Adapted to Self-instruction, and the Use of Schools and Colleges |
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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz acatalectic adverb Æneid anapestic ancient argument avoided beautiful blank verse called character Cicero classes clauses comma composed composition connection consists constitute correct criticism degree denote discourse division effect emotion employed Enallage English epic poetry essay EXERCISE expression faculty fault figures following sentences genius Greek harmony humor iambic iambic pentameter ideas Illustrate imagination introduced ject kind language LESSON letter literature means mind moral nature nouns objects observed ornaments passage passions person Philip of Macedon pleasure poem poet poetry present principles produced pronoun proper proposition propriety prose punctuation Quintilian reader reason regard relating Repeat Rule respect rhetoric rhyme Saxon semicolon sense signify similes sometimes sophism sound specimens Staffa stanza style sublime syllables Syllepsis Taste tence term things thou thought tion transitive verb trochaic trochee truth variety verb verse violated virtue words writer
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Page 232 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked...
Page 208 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Page 265 - Yet he was kind — or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.
Page 96 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Page 299 - He shall not drop." said my uncle Toby, firmly. "A-well-o'day, do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,; "the poor soul will die." "He shall not die, by G— !" cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 403 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 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...
Page 210 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 208 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page 329 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory!
Page 235 - And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.