Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History and Peculiarities of the English Language ... Adapted to Self Instruction, and the Use of Schools and Colleges

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D. Appleton, 1864 - 451页
 

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第245页 - joyous Spring Is cradled on the Winter's icy breast, And yet comes flushed in beauty." 16. " Vice is a monster of so frightful . mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.'
第269页 - And e'en the story ran that he could gauge For e'en though vanquished he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rusties ranged around And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all
第260页 - apricots, Which, like unruly children, make their sire Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight; Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou; and, like an executioner, Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays, That look too lofty in our commonwealth; All must be even in our government." 4. In Addison's Cato, Portius, bidding
第411页 - of this his favorite metre :— " Tis hard' to say If greater want of skill Appear in writing, or in judging, ill; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, bat numbers err in this; Ten
第130页 - we hope to enjoy rest neverending rest rest in which are concentrated all conceivable pleasures — Suddenly there came a tapping as of some one gently rapping rapping at my chamber door — Lochiel Lochiel beware of the day UNDER RULE
第96页 - O Rome my country city of the soul The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires Men of Athens listen to my defence —Ye shades of the mighty dead listen to my invocation. UNDER § 102. An honest lawyer
第253页 - saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. 5. Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, 0 maid of Inistore 1 Bend thy fair head over the waves, thou
第416页 - still Ascribe all good, || to their improper, [ ill." " The dew was falling fast, || the stars | began to blink; I heard a voice; | it said, ||' Drink, | pretty creature, | drink I' And, | looking o'er the hedge, || before me I espied A snow-white mountain lamb, 1| with a maiden at its side." EXERCISE. I. Each of the following lines contains its own words
第307页 - la lightnings owned his secret stings ; In one rude clash he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings." " With woful measures wan Despair— Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled; A solemn, strange, and mingled air,
第409页 - 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 uurolled.

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