Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History, and Peculiarities of the English Language ... |
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... CRITICISM , AND THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION ; ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES . ADAPTED TO SELF - INSTRUCTION , AND THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES . " True grace in writing comes from ART , not chance ...
... CRITICISM , AND THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION ; ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES . ADAPTED TO SELF - INSTRUCTION , AND THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES . " True grace in writing comes from ART , not chance ...
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... criticism . A thorough prelimi- nary course on these important subjects was thought necessary before requiring the student to write original exercises . Thus prepared , the pupil enters on the subject of prose compo- sition . The ...
... criticism . A thorough prelimi- nary course on these important subjects was thought necessary before requiring the student to write original exercises . Thus prepared , the pupil enters on the subject of prose compo- sition . The ...
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... Criticism , · PART IV . PROSE COMPOSITION . PAGE • 267 270 277 279 284 291 298 299 808 809 · 318 818 LXVII ... Criticism , 846 847 • 847 · 847 LESSON XCII . Exercise in Criticism , PAGE · 847 CONTENTS . 11.
... Criticism , · PART IV . PROSE COMPOSITION . PAGE • 267 270 277 279 284 291 298 299 808 809 · 318 818 LXVII ... Criticism , 846 847 • 847 · 847 LESSON XCII . Exercise in Criticism , PAGE · 847 CONTENTS . 11.
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... Criticism , PAGE · 847 XCIII . Description of Material Objects , 848 XCIV . Description of Natural Scenery , and Persons , 850 XCV . Narration . - Argument . - Exposition . - Speculation , 358 XCVI . Letters , 855 XCVII Letters ...
... Criticism , PAGE · 847 XCIII . Description of Material Objects , 848 XCIV . Description of Natural Scenery , and Persons , 850 XCV . Narration . - Argument . - Exposition . - Speculation , 358 XCVI . Letters , 855 XCVII Letters ...
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... critics have found it difficult to decide whether they should be classed among the latest speci- mens of Saxon , or the earliest of English , literature , bearing , as they do , the characteristics of each ; they have , therefore ...
... critics have found it difficult to decide whether they should be classed among the latest speci- mens of Saxon , or the earliest of English , literature , bearing , as they do , the characteristics of each ; they have , therefore ...
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Page 195 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 234 - 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 270 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 252 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Page 210 - 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 224 - Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how. Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved, Pure as the expanse of heaven ; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky...
Page 259 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Page 306 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning...
Page 253 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 101 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.