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... Meaning in English . Exercises Diction . What Good Diction Demands 91 91 96 97 Purity Use of Foreign Words Obsolete Words 97 99 99 • Words Not Yet Good English Good Usage Slang Overworked Words 100 . 101 103 104 • Slang Impoverishes ...
... Meaning in English . Exercises Diction . What Good Diction Demands 91 91 96 97 Purity Use of Foreign Words Obsolete Words 97 99 99 • Words Not Yet Good English Good Usage Slang Overworked Words 100 . 101 103 104 • Slang Impoverishes ...
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... meaning to write ; the second act as meant ; and the third act , a court scene in which indictment could easily be introduced . The scenes may be given impromptu ; or they may be acted out according to a scenario prepared beforehand ...
... meaning to write ; the second act as meant ; and the third act , a court scene in which indictment could easily be introduced . The scenes may be given impromptu ; or they may be acted out according to a scenario prepared beforehand ...
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... meaning more plainly than you could otherwise do , and thus impress upon your hearers or readers the point you consider important . ― Methods of Obtaining Emphasis . There are many methods of obtaining emphasis , of which the following ...
... meaning more plainly than you could otherwise do , and thus impress upon your hearers or readers the point you consider important . ― Methods of Obtaining Emphasis . There are many methods of obtaining emphasis , of which the following ...
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... meaning at a glance . For instance , in the quotation from Emerson in the preceding exercise , note the first sen- tence , Our arts are happy hits . Its force immediately attracts attention . Simple sentences are useful for introducing ...
... meaning at a glance . For instance , in the quotation from Emerson in the preceding exercise , note the first sen- tence , Our arts are happy hits . Its force immediately attracts attention . Simple sentences are useful for introducing ...
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... meaning of short sentences , but the use of too many of them produces an impression of monotony which it is well to avoid . Long sentences , when well managed , tend to give dignity and grace to speech or writing . The objection to ...
... meaning of short sentences , but the use of too many of them produces an impression of monotony which it is well to avoid . Long sentences , when well managed , tend to give dignity and grace to speech or writing . The objection to ...
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Page 247 - Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door, Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is and nothing more.
Page 97 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 165 - ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house 'at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Page 78 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 61 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, $ Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...
Page 95 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
Page 244 - Oh ! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broadsword he weapons had none, He rode all unarmed and he rode all alone. So faithful in love and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 134 - The bride kissed the goblet, the knight took it up ; He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup ; She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Page 34 - I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That grow for happy lovers. I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows; I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river: For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 259 - I'm the chief of Ulva's isle, And this, Lord Ullin's daughter. 'And fast before her father's men Three days we've fled together, For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. 'His horsemen hard behind us ride — Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride When they have slain her lover?