English Lessons for English PeopleRoberts Bros., 1898 - 303 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 76
Seite v
... give a kindly welcome to our little book , as an attempt , however imperfect , to hand on the torch which you have handed to us ; we beg you also to accept it as a token of our sincere gratitude for more than ordinary kindnesses , and ...
... give a kindly welcome to our little book , as an attempt , however imperfect , to hand on the torch which you have handed to us ; we beg you also to accept it as a token of our sincere gratitude for more than ordinary kindnesses , and ...
Seite ix
... gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations , unmeaning periphrases , and would - be humorous circumlocutions , a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive , which may be known and avoided by ...
... gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations , unmeaning periphrases , and would - be humorous circumlocutions , a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive , which may be known and avoided by ...
Seite xi
... gives rise to the vicious style described above . It gives some practical rules for writing a long sentence clearly and impressively ; and it also examines the difference between slang , conversation , and written prose . Both for ...
... gives rise to the vicious style described above . It gives some practical rules for writing a long sentence clearly and impressively ; and it also examines the difference between slang , conversation , and written prose . Both for ...
Seite xiii
... to understand the explanation . Without entering into the details of formal Logic , we have found it possible to give nupils some few hints which have appeared to help them . The hints are so elementary , and so few , PREFACE . Xin.
... to understand the explanation . Without entering into the details of formal Logic , we have found it possible to give nupils some few hints which have appeared to help them . The hints are so elementary , and so few , PREFACE . Xin.
Seite xv
... not unfit for some who have passed the age of boyhood ; and in this hope we have ventured to give it the title of English Lessons for English People . SHORT TABLE OF CONTENTS . PART I.- VOCABULARY . Chapter. PREFACE . XV.
... not unfit for some who have passed the age of boyhood ; and in this hope we have ventured to give it the title of English Lessons for English People . SHORT TABLE OF CONTENTS . PART I.- VOCABULARY . Chapter. PREFACE . XV.
Inhalt
104 | |
110 | |
122 | |
126 | |
138 | |
143 | |
145 | |
151 | |
155 | |
156 | |
159 | |
161 | |
162 | |
165 | |
169 | |
226 | |
229 | |
232 | |
235 | |
239 | |
240 | |
252 | |
261 | |
269 | |
291 | |
294 | |
295 | |
298 | |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accented syllable Æneid affixes alliteration alliterative amphibrachic anapæstic archaic avoided blank verse Cæsar cæsura called character common conversation couplet COWPER defined definition didactic composition dissyllabic metre Dryden early English effect elevated Eliminates emphatic English poetry epic epithets example excess express extra syllable fault feet foot forcible four accents give graceful style Greek Grimm's Law hand Hence iamb iambic Illustrate imaginative incidents instance Julius Cæsar kind language Latin less license meaning metaphor Metrical Accent Milton monosyllable motion narration nation natural noun o'er object oppression oratory Paradise Lost passage passion pause perhaps periphrasis person Personification picturesque pleasure plough poem poetic diction poets Pope pronounced prose rhyme rhythm Richard II rule sense sentence Shakspeare simile slang sometimes Sonnet sound speak speech stanza syllables synonyms Tennyson thing thou thought tion trisyllabic metre trochaic trochee unaccented syllable verb verse vowel words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 83 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 83 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Seite 123 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Seite 85 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 184 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Seite 82 - Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 138 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Seite 84 - ... and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves beside them, interrupted and dim, like the morning light as it faded back among the branches of Eden, when first its gates were angel-guarded long ago.
Seite 203 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faeryland To struggle through dark ways ; and, when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing became a trumpet ; whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few...
Seite 118 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a deathbed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.