Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time Together with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary as an Aid to Systematic Literary Study : for Use in High and Normal Schools, Academies, Seminaries, & CHarper & Brothers, 1881 - 638 pages |
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... give an account of the progress of principles . 8. Exposition , or expository writing , is that kind of com- position in which facts or principles are discussed , and the conclusion is reached by a process of reasoning . The expository ...
... give an account of the progress of principles . 8. Exposition , or expository writing , is that kind of com- position in which facts or principles are discussed , and the conclusion is reached by a process of reasoning . The expository ...
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... give our speech that richness and variety which so eminently characterize it . The following hexameters , by William Wetmore Story , poet and sculptor , present a striking description of the various elements which contribute to the ...
... give our speech that richness and variety which so eminently characterize it . The following hexameters , by William Wetmore Story , poet and sculptor , present a striking description of the various elements which contribute to the ...
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... . Therefore it is that I praise thee and never can cease from re- joicing , Thinking that good stout English is mine and my ancestor's tongue ; Give me its varying music , the flow of its xxxii STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... . Therefore it is that I praise thee and never can cease from re- joicing , Thinking that good stout English is mine and my ancestor's tongue ; Give me its varying music , the flow of its xxxii STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... give me audience , * friends.— Cassius , go you into the other street , • And part the numbers.— Those that will hear me speak , let ' em stay here ; Those that will follow Cassius , go with him ; And public reasons shall be rendered Of ...
... give me audience , * friends.— Cassius , go you into the other street , • And part the numbers.— Those that will hear me speak , let ' em stay here ; Those that will follow Cassius , go with him ; And public reasons shall be rendered Of ...
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... Give him a statue with his ancestors . Third Citizen . Let him be Cæsar . Fourth Citizen . Shall be crowned in Brutus . Cæsar's better parts First Citizen . We'll bring him to his house with shouts and 45 50 clamors . Brutus . My ...
... Give him a statue with his ancestors . Third Citizen . Let him be Cæsar . Fourth Citizen . Shall be crowned in Brutus . Cæsar's better parts First Citizen . We'll bring him to his house with shouts and 45 50 clamors . Brutus . My ...
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abbey Addison alliteration Analyze this sentence Anglo-Saxon Antony Aurelian beauty behold Brutus Cæsar called death delight doth Dryden Duke earth Edward the Confessor English Essay etymology Explain expression eyes feelings figure of speech genius give grace grammatical construction hand hath hear heart heaven honorable Hudibras human humor INTRODUCTION.-The Julius Cæsar kind of sentence king L'Allegro language learned LITERARY ANALYSIS living look Lord manner Mark Antony meaning metaphor metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never night noble o'er Observe Odenathus paragraph passion phrase Pindaric pleasure pleonasm poem poet poetry Point Pope Portia praise pride prose rhetorically Roman Saracen scene Second Citizen sense Shakespeare Shylock Sir Roger soul sound speak spirit stanza style Supply the ellipsis sweet tence thee things Third Citizen thou thought tion tomb verb words writing Zenobia