Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 pages |
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... Genius cannot be fettered , and an original and thinking mind , replete with its own exuberance , will often burst out in spontaneous gushings , and open to itself new channels , through which the treasures of thought will flow in rich ...
... Genius cannot be fettered , and an original and thinking mind , replete with its own exuberance , will often burst out in spontaneous gushings , and open to itself new channels , through which the treasures of thought will flow in rich ...
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... " r , in the translation of Mr. Francis : " Examine well , ye writers , weigh with care , What suits your genius , what your strength will baaz . AIDN то ENGLISH COMPOSITION . I. OBJECTS AND THEIR PARTS INTRODUCTION .
... " r , in the translation of Mr. Francis : " Examine well , ye writers , weigh with care , What suits your genius , what your strength will baaz . AIDN то ENGLISH COMPOSITION . I. OBJECTS AND THEIR PARTS INTRODUCTION .
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... genius and art , producing an association of exalted and brilliant ideas in language harmoniously arranged ? A general coincident feeling between two persons ? Habitual inactivity both of mind and body ? That tranquil state of mind in ...
... genius and art , producing an association of exalted and brilliant ideas in language harmoniously arranged ? A general coincident feeling between two persons ? Habitual inactivity both of mind and body ? That tranquil state of mind in ...
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... genius of those languages . ' A few examples of this kind of exercise , will be sufficient to explain the nature of it , and to show its utility . The brother deserved censure more than his sister . The sister was less reprehensible ...
... genius of those languages . ' A few examples of this kind of exercise , will be sufficient to explain the nature of it , and to show its utility . The brother deserved censure more than his sister . The sister was less reprehensible ...
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... genius : Virgil the better artist ; in the one we admire the man , in the other the work . Homer hurries as with a com manding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty . Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil ...
... genius : Virgil the better artist ; in the one we admire the man , in the other the work . Homer hurries as with a com manding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty . Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil ...
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accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young