The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for RhetoricS.C. Griggs and Company, 1891 - 174 pages |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric Lucy A. Chittenden Affichage du livre entier - 1884 |
The Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric Lucy A. Chittenden Affichage du livre entier - 1884 |
Elements of English Composition: A Preparation for Rhetoric Lucy A. Chittenden Affichage du livre entier - 1886 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Adam Smith amphithea antecedent birds breath Bregenz bright child Christmas pie clause clear Cleon coach comma Complimentary Close cried Crodunk Dear dependent clause DEVELOPMENT Dick Dolly door e'en emphatic Exercise expression eyes face father faulty examples fear flowers gate Gilpin gold hand head heard heart heaven horse John Gilpin Julius Cæsar king Lake Constance land letter light Little white Lily look Lord maid master meadow meaning METONYMY mistress morning mountains Murillo never night noble noun o'er omitted PARAPHRASE pearls of dew PHOEBE CARY phrase plain fully pleasant poem Principle XV pronouns punctuation pupil Queen REPRODUCTION ride river rose Sebastian seemed sentence singing leaves slave steed stood story Swanage sweet tell thee thou thought tion told Tom Flynn TOPICAL OUTLINE Tower Transform Twas Tyrol watch William Caxton word write young
Fréquemment cités
Page 162 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Page 161 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
Page 162 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 100 - And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 89 - Now Mistress Gilpin, careful soul, Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipped from top to toe, His long red cloak well brushed and neat He manfully did throw.
Page 92 - The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain, Whom in a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein. • But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin, and away Went post-boy at his heels, The post-boy's horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels.
Page 153 - So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow!
Page 124 - And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And, to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ? " The vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 160 - Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbor bar be moaning. Three corpses lay out on the shining sands In the morning gleam as the tide went down...
Page 90 - Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he ? His fame soon spread around, He carries weight ! he rides a race ! 'Tis for a thousand pound...