Composition - Rhetoric - Literature: A Four Years' Course for Secondary SchoolsB.H. Sanborn & Company, 1922 |
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adjective American arguments beauty boys Cæsura character CHARLOTTE BRONTË clauses clear coherence color dear definite Describe diction dictionary English example EXERCISE exposition expression flowers following extract following passage give grammar green human humor iambic pentameter idea John JOHN KEATS JOHN MILTON JOHN RUSKIN Julius Cæsar kind language Latin letter literature live look Macbeth means Milton narration narrative NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE nature never night noun paragraph periodic sentence person phrases poem poetry pronoun reader rich rime river ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON RUDYARD KIPLING Samuel Johnson scene SHAKESPEARE sometimes sonnet sound stanza story student Study the following style syllables tell tence theme things thought tion topic sentence trees truth verb verse vivid voice walk WILLIAM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH words WORDSWORTH write written
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Página 323 - Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ... A good book is the precious
Página 352 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further. »^ SHAKESPEARE : Macbeth. Anticlimax. — In anticlimax, the reader, who is expecting an impressive climax, is rewarded by a sudden introduction of the ridiculous.
Página 344 - was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. The
Página 248 - I call, therefore, a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve and one-and-twenty, less
Página 336 - of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. JOHN KEATS : Endymion.
Página 357 - I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee. And live alone in the bee-loud glade. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS : The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
Página 343 - My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage. SIR WALTER RALEIGH : His Pilgrimage. Simile. — In a simile one thing is described by stating its similarity to something else usually better known. The likeness is
Página 341 - boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Sonnet Ixxiii. The suffering brought by filial ingratitude is represented by an appeal to the sense of touch. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it
Página 339 - Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, An' then she made the lasses, O. Green grow the rashes, 0; Green grow the rashes, O ; The sweetest hours that e'er I spent, Were spent among the lasses, O
Página 335 - In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. JOHN MILTON: L'Allegro. An heroic couplet is a stanza of two lines of iambic pentameter, riming. It is called heroic because