English Lessons for English PeopleRoberts Bros., 1898 - 303 Seiten |
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... sentence clearly and impressively ; and it also examines the difference between slang , conversation , and written prose . Both for translating from foreign languages into English , and for writing original English composition , these ...
... sentence clearly and impressively ; and it also examines the difference between slang , conversation , and written prose . Both for translating from foreign languages into English , and for writing original English composition , these ...
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... sentences before defining , we should have escaped this error . We should have seen that punished not oppressed was the correct . word in the above sentence , and we should have liminated " punishment . " 5. Sentences of Elimination ...
... sentences before defining , we should have escaped this error . We should have seen that punished not oppressed was the correct . word in the above sentence , and we should have liminated " punishment . " 5. Sentences of Elimination ...
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... sentences may be called sentences of elimination , because they help us to eliminate from the first rough approximate ... sentence where the word to be defined , preceded by " all , " " all oppression " is the subject , will serve as a ...
... sentences may be called sentences of elimination , because they help us to eliminate from the first rough approximate ... sentence where the word to be defined , preceded by " all , " " all oppression " is the subject , will serve as a ...
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... sentences may be called sentences of elimination , beca they help us to eliminate from the first rough approxima ... sentence where the word to be defined , preceded by " all , e.g. " all oppression " is the subject , will serve as a ...
... sentences may be called sentences of elimination , beca they help us to eliminate from the first rough approxima ... sentence where the word to be defined , preceded by " all , e.g. " all oppression " is the subject , will serve as a ...
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... Sentences are to be constructed containing the word to be defined . Some of these sentences will be correct , and may be called defining sentences ; others will be incorrect ( requiring some synonym , and not the word to be defined ) ...
... Sentences are to be constructed containing the word to be defined . Some of these sentences will be correct , and may be called defining sentences ; others will be incorrect ( requiring some synonym , and not the word to be defined ) ...
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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.