First Lessons in Composition, in which the Principles of the Art are Developed in Connection with the Principles of Grammar: Embracing Full Directions on the Subject of Punctuation, with Copious ExercisesD.Appleton and Company, 1878 |
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adding the suffix adjective pronouns adverb analysis ancient antecedent APPLETON argumentative discourses Arithmetic arrangement BALFOUR STEWART biographical sketches Black pepper called classes comma commencing Composition and Rhetoric compound sentence conjunction connected consist consonant Copy and punctuate correct dash occurs dear derivatives describe E. A. FREEMAN English Grammar English Language essential property exclamatory sentence EXERCISE express father following sentences Give an example happiness head Illustrated infinitive mood insert interjection interrogative pronouns intransitive intransitive verb introduced kind king language LESSONS IN COMPOSITION letter Mahomet mean Mention metaphor noun or pronoun object participial clause participle preposition primitive principal proper punctuate the following pupil Quackenbos's quotation-points R. C. JEBB relative clause relative pronoun Romans rule that relates School History similes simple sentences sound speech style syllable synonymes tautology teacher tence text-book tion tive transitive verb virtue vocative clause vowel walking words and clauses
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Page 105 - The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 64 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 54 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past...
Page 148 - IN that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
Page 182 - Man yields to custom, as he bows to fate, In all things ruled — mind, body, and estate ; In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply To them we know not, and we know not why...
Page 106 - It scarce deserved his verse. With nature's self He seemed an old acquaintance, free to jest At will with all her glorious majesty. He laid his hand upon " the ocean's mane," And played familiar with his hoary locks.
Page 147 - ... head Now i dare say you will all exclaim what a wonderful clock what a wonderful man must he be that made it but let US remember how much more wonderful are the mechanism of the universe and the god who made it how wonderful that being who made us and all mankind and keeps the whole universe going and every heart beating from day to day and from year to year " Lo these are but a part of his ways but the thunder of his power who can understand
Page 149 - Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun...
Page 91 - Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little.