Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History, and Peculiarities of the English Language ...D. Appleton & Company, 1863 - 451 من الصفحات |
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acatalectic adverb Æneid anapestic ancient appear argument avoided beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse called character Cicero classes clauses closing vowel comma composed composition connection consists constitute correct criticism degree denote discourse division effect emotion employed Enallage English epic poetry essay EXERCISE expression faculty fault figures following sentences genius Give examples Greek harmony humor iambic iambic pentameter ideas Illustrate imagination introduced kind language LESSON letter literature Lysias means mind moral nature nouns objects observed ornaments parentheses passage passion person Philip of Macedon pleasure poem poet poetry present principles produced pronoun proper proposition prose punctuation Quintilian reader reason regard Repeat Rule respect rhetoric rhyme Saxon sense signify similes sometimes sophism sound specimens Staffa stanza style sublime syllables Syllepsis Taste tence term things thou thought tion trochaic trochee truth variety verb verse violated virtue words writer
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الصفحة 193 - 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.
الصفحة 208 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
الصفحة 232 - 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...
الصفحة 99 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
الصفحة 267 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge. In arguing too, the parson owned his skill; For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still...
الصفحة 208 - He bowed the heavens also and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
الصفحة 222 - 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 As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me : I started back, « It started back : but pleased I soon return'd, Pleased it return'd as soon...
الصفحة 208 - 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.
الصفحة 235 - And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
الصفحة 407 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.