A practical introduction to English composition, by R. (and T.) Armstrong. [With] Key, Part 1 |
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... EXAMPLE . - The noon of day is calm . VARIED . - Calm is the noon of day . EXERCISES . Behind you are the Alps . The uses ON THE SIMPLE SENTENCE . 23 SECTION IV Variation of Position and Form in Simple Sentences, 223.
... EXAMPLE . - The noon of day is calm . VARIED . - Calm is the noon of day . EXERCISES . Behind you are the Alps . The uses ON THE SIMPLE SENTENCE . 23 SECTION IV Variation of Position and Form in Simple Sentences, 223.
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... EXAMPLE . Without fire nature would teem with riches in vain . CHANGED . 1. In vain would nature , without fire , teem with riches . 2. Nature , without fire , would in vain teem with riches . EXERCISES . In the season of winter , we ...
... EXAMPLE . Without fire nature would teem with riches in vain . CHANGED . 1. In vain would nature , without fire , teem with riches . 2. Nature , without fire , would in vain teem with riches . EXERCISES . In the season of winter , we ...
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... EXAMPLE . - The hound pursues the hare . CHANGED . - The bare is pursued by the hound . EXERCISES . The wind shakes the The pilot guides the God sees all things . The lamp illumines the chamber . trees . The shepherd leads his flock ...
... EXAMPLE . - The hound pursues the hare . CHANGED . - The bare is pursued by the hound . EXERCISES . The wind shakes the The pilot guides the God sees all things . The lamp illumines the chamber . trees . The shepherd leads his flock ...
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... EXAMPLE - John gained a prize . CHANGED - Did John gain a prize ? EXERCISES . I shall call to - morrow . You are very busy . The master is gone . The boy could repeat his lesson . We shall return immediately . He answered all the ...
... EXAMPLE - John gained a prize . CHANGED - Did John gain a prize ? EXERCISES . I shall call to - morrow . You are very busy . The master is gone . The boy could repeat his lesson . We shall return immediately . He answered all the ...
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... EXAMPLE - The instinct of the bee is very wonderful . CHANGED - How wonderful is the instinct of the bee ! EXERCISES . The weather is very The world would be It is very cold . The wind howls . uncertain . The empire of God is vast ...
... EXAMPLE - The instinct of the bee is very wonderful . CHANGED - How wonderful is the instinct of the bee ! EXERCISES . The weather is very The world would be It is very cold . The wind howls . uncertain . The empire of God is vast ...
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Page 77 - But, present still, though now unseen, When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen, To temper the deceitful ray.
Page 92 - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice : but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Page 77 - God before her moved, An awful guide, in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonished lands The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow.
Page 98 - Your son," exclaimed a youth not yet come to maturity. " Ah, my child," cried St. Pierre, " I am then twice sacrificed. But, no, I have rather begotten thee a second time. Thy years are few, but full, my son. The victim of virtue has reached the utmost purpose and goal of mortality. Who next, my friends? This is the hour of heroes ! — " Your kinsman !
Page 96 - in the vale, and I illuminate the mountain. I cheer the cottager at his toil, and inspire the .sage at his meditation. 1 mingle in the crowd of cities, and bless the hermit in his cell. I have a temple in every heart that owns my influence ; and to him that wishes for me, I am already present. Science may raise thee to eminence ; but I alone can guide thee to felicity...
Page 125 - A NIGHTINGALE, that all day long Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, • Began to feel, as well he might. The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far...
Page 54 - An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights hung speechless; each...
Page 57 - ... who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else...
Page 77 - With priest's and warrior's voice between. No portents now our foes amaze, Forsaken Israel wanders lone : Our fathers would not know Thy ways, And Thou hast left them to their own. But present still, though now unseen ! When brightly shines the...
Page 79 - The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine, Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear, 380 Yet dazzle Heaven, that brightest Seraphim Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes.