Progressive Exercises in English CompositionRobert S. Davis and Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1837 - 105페이지 |
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advantages Affectation allegory Alliteration amplified analogy animal antithesis ascended attention beauty benevolence Biography Boston character Cloven footed comparison COMPLEX THEMES compound sentence connexion corrected cultivated Dacians Damon death Decebalus degree Dionysius dress earth embraced employed English Composition EUPHEMISM EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE favour figurative language flax Fortune genius give Grammar habits happiness harmony hills of Bagdad History idea important Indolence kind knowledge labour Lesson 35th letter light live mankind manner meaning metaphor methodise mind MODEL Modesty NARRATION nature object ornament page 58th Page 64th paraphrase parent particular periphrasis persons Phenicia pillar Plain Plancus pleasure Pompeii present Pride principal Progressive Exercises PROSOPOPOEIA pupil Pythias religion resemblance Rhetorick rhyme Romans sense shines signify simple sentences solitude STYLE taste Tautology teacher tences things thought tion tivate Trajan truth Variety of expression verses virtue winds words youth
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32 페이지 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
56 페이지 - Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm To thy sick heart.
32 페이지 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
33 페이지 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
32 페이지 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
61 페이지 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
12 페이지 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
44 페이지 - My lord," said Pythias, with a firm voice and noble aspect, "I would it were possible that I might suffer a thousand deaths, rather than my friend should fail in any article of his honour. He cannot fail therein, my lord. I am as confident of his virtue, as I am of my own existence. — But I pray, I beseech the gods, to preserve the life and integrity of my Damon together.
50 페이지 - But souls like these, such toils impelled To soar. Hail to the morn, when first they stood On Bunker's height, And, fearless, stemmed the invading flood, And wrote our dearest rights in blood, And mowed in ranks the Hireling brood, In desperate fight!
56 페이지 - Yet, fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream! by the village side; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen ; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.