Elements of Rhetoric and English Composition: First High School CourseMacmillan Company, 1899 - Всего страниц: 263 |
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adjective adverb American Anglo-Saxon beginning called clear Coherence colloquial commas complex sentence compound sentence construction correct definite dependent clause dictionary Dutch Republic educated effect emphasis England ENGLISH COMPOSITION essay essential example EXERCISE expressions fault feel figures of speech following sentences force French future tenses George Eliot give grammatical structure habit idea important Incoherence incorrect instance interest king King Arthur language Latin literary English literature loose sentence meaning Metonomy mind modified Notice nouns object paragraph periodic sentence person phrases plural Poems possessive predicate principal clauses principles pronoun pupil question reader regard RHETORIC AND ENGLISH rule sense Silas Marner simple sentence single singular Sometimes confused speech spelling statement student style subordinate clauses summary sentence teachers tences thing thought tion topic sentence trees unity usage verb verb-phrases vocabulary vulgar whole composition writing
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Стр. 211 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of
Стр. 171 - cried out, Thieves ! Thieves ! With that Guilt, with a great club that was in his hand, struck Little-faith on the head, and with that blow felled him flat to the ground, where he lay bleeding as one that would bleed to death. All this while the thieves stood by. But, at last, they hearing
Стр. 115 - In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill Mountains. 2. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a
Стр. 115 - Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill Mountains in a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day. 2. He threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, panting and
Стр. 178 - Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, Where the salt weed sways in the stream, Where the sea-beasts, ranged all round, Feed in the ooze of their pasture-ground
Стр. 155 - and construct sentences which will illustrate their use. "Although as boys we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little of my friend. His reserve had been always excessive and habitual. I was aware, however, that his very ancient family had been noted, time out of mind,
Стр. 103 - of the art of angling ; of which he would say, " 'Twas an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent; for angling was, after tedious study, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts.
Стр. 78 - and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their happiness. EXERCISE
Стр. 115 - 2. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll. 3. From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland.
Стр. 179 - j Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Dry their mail and bask in the brine; Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.