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... Pleasant Sounds , Section 2. Accents at Convenient Intervals , Section 3. Cadence at the Close , 134 136 137 Section 4. Adapting the Sound to the Sense , . . 138 CHAPTER IV . Figures . Relation of the Subject to viii CONTENTS .
... Pleasant Sounds , Section 2. Accents at Convenient Intervals , Section 3. Cadence at the Close , 134 136 137 Section 4. Adapting the Sound to the Sense , . . 138 CHAPTER IV . Figures . Relation of the Subject to viii CONTENTS .
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... close , the succeeding clause in that case being of a restrictive character ; as , " You will reap as you sow , " " You may go when you please . " NOTE 4. For the same reason , clauses united by the conjunction that should not be ...
... close , the succeeding clause in that case being of a restrictive character ; as , " You will reap as you sow , " " You may go when you please . " NOTE 4. For the same reason , clauses united by the conjunction that should not be ...
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... close , the last of them , of course , is not followed by a comma , but by a period or some other point greater than a comma . See foot - note , p . 20 . Examples for Practice . 1. Love for study a desire to do right and carefulness in ...
... close , the last of them , of course , is not followed by a comma , but by a period or some other point greater than a comma . See foot - note , p . 20 . Examples for Practice . 1. Love for study a desire to do right and carefulness in ...
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... close , the semicolon is not used . The word " when , " introducing the first member , indicates this kind of close connection , and prevents ordinarily the use of the semicolon . " As , " and " so , " introducing the two members ...
... close , the semicolon is not used . The word " when , " introducing the first member , indicates this kind of close connection , and prevents ordinarily the use of the semicolon . " As , " and " so , " introducing the two members ...
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... close , and the successive members are short and simple , the comma is used ; if the members are somewhat longer , and especially if any of them are at all complex , the semicolon is used ; if , in addition to this , the connection in ...
... close , and the successive members are short and simple , the comma is used ; if the members are somewhat longer , and especially if any of them are at all complex , the semicolon is used ; if , in addition to this , the connection in ...
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Page 248 - I never more shall see my own, my native land: Take a message, and a token, to some distant friends of mine, For I was born at Bingen, — at Bingen on the Rhine.
Page 191 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 250 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Page 95 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Page 248 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 175 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 88 - Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 52 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ...
Page 160 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 193 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!