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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... light : For spectacles to assist sight : For useful vessels , such as tumblers , pitchers , decanters , wine - glasses , jelly - glasses , bottles , phials , inkstands , lamps , and lamp - glasses , chandeliers , handles of doors and ...
... light : For spectacles to assist sight : For useful vessels , such as tumblers , pitchers , decanters , wine - glasses , jelly - glasses , bottles , phials , inkstands , lamps , and lamp - glasses , chandeliers , handles of doors and ...
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... , hard , angular , stiff , grooved The pith is white , porous , soft , spongy elastic . light . The use of the pen is to write down what AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 3 Objects, their parts, qualities, properties, uses, and appendages,
... , hard , angular , stiff , grooved The pith is white , porous , soft , spongy elastic . light . The use of the pen is to write down what AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 3 Objects, their parts, qualities, properties, uses, and appendages,
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... light . However base or unworthy . Is the emblem of . How boundless . The tender assiduities of friendship . Irregular projecting rocks . Was peculiarly dear . With very great pleasure . The refulgent lamp of nignt . The science which ...
... light . However base or unworthy . Is the emblem of . How boundless . The tender assiduities of friendship . Irregular projecting rocks . Was peculiarly dear . With very great pleasure . The refulgent lamp of nignt . The science which ...
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... lights . An endless variety of characters , dispositions , and passions , diversifies the wide circle of human affairs . A crowd that obstructed his passage awakened him from the tranquillity of meditation . He raised his eyes and saw ...
... lights . An endless variety of characters , dispositions , and passions , diversifies the wide circle of human affairs . A crowd that obstructed his passage awakened him from the tranquillity of meditation . He raised his eyes and saw ...
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... light , heat , cold , frost , rain , snow , hail , sleet , thunder , lightning . as well as almost all those objects which form the component parts of the beautiful in external scenery , as sea and land , hill and dale , wood and stream ...
... light , heat , cold , frost , rain , snow , hail , sleet , thunder , lightning . as well as almost all those objects which form the component parts of the beautiful in external scenery , as sea and land , hill and dale , wood and stream ...
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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