Grammar of the English Tongue: With the Arts of Logick, Rhetorick, Poetry, &c., Illustrated with Useful Notes Giving the Grounds and Reasons of Grammar in General, the Whole Making a Compleat System of an English Education

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J. Rivington and J. Fletcher, 1759 - 300페이지
 

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117 페이지 - If any notable faying, or paflage of an author, be quoted in his own words, it begins with a capital, though not immediately after a period.
6 페이지 - ... keep her waiting, and, if possible, meet her on the way. AN INVITATION- CANNOT BE RECALLED. An invitation, once given, cannot be recalled, even from the best motives, without subjecting the one who recalls it to the charge of being either ignorant or regardless of all conventional rules of politeness. There is but one exception to this rule, and that is when the invitation has been delivered to the wrong person. AVOID TALKING OF PERSONALITIES. Avoid speaking of yonr birth, your travels and of...
139 페이지 - Loves hodes, hounds, and fports, and exercife, Prone to all vice, impatient of reproof, Proud, carelefs, fond, inconftant, and profufe. Gain and ambition rule our riper years, And make us flaves to intereft and power. Old men are only...
157 페이지 - He ftrait grows jealous, though we know not why ; Then, to oblige his rival, needs will die : But firft he makes a fpeech, wherein he tells The abfent nymph how much his flame excels ; And yet bequeaths her generoufly now To that lov'd rival whom he does not know ! Who ftrait appears ; but who can fate withftand ? Too late, alas ! to hold his hafty hand, That juft has...
43 페이지 - Circumstances, Actions, Passions, and Beings of Things, with their Relations, Regards, and Connexions to, and with each other in Sentences. According to this, there are Four Parts of Speech, or Four Heads, to which every Word in all Languages may be reduc'd. The Four Parts of Speech Names Affirmations Qualities Particles, or the Manner of Words.
134 페이지 - The poet, here, muft be, indeed, infpir'd, With fury too, as well as fancy fir'd. Cowley might boaft to have perform'd this part, Had he with nature join'd the rules of art ; But, fometimes, diftion mean, or verfe ill-wrought, Deadens, or clouds, his noble frame of thought. Tho' all appear in heat and fury done, The language ftill muft foft and eafy run.
156 페이지 - Our lovers talking to themselves, for want Of others, make the pit their confidant ; Nor is the matter mended yet, if thus They trust a friend, only to tell it us : Th' occasion should as naturally fall, AS when BELLARIO* confesses all.
116 페이지 - Ajierifm (*) a ftar, guides to fome remark in the margin, or at the foot of the page. Several of them fet together, fignifie that there is fomething wanting, defective or immodeft in...

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