Studies in American LiteratureMacmillan, 1912 - 387 pages |
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Page 21
Charles Noble. oricians , the sentence is to the " Paragraph . " One feels , before he understands it or realizes the cause of it , the effect of good paragraph structure . The mere look of a page unbroken by paragraph divisions is ...
Charles Noble. oricians , the sentence is to the " Paragraph . " One feels , before he understands it or realizes the cause of it , the effect of good paragraph structure . The mere look of a page unbroken by paragraph divisions is ...
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... feeling empty wishes naught obtain At night turns to his mother's cot again , And tells her tales — his full heart over glad— Of all the glorious sight his eyes have had ; But finds too soon his want of eloquence ; The silly prattler ...
... feeling empty wishes naught obtain At night turns to his mother's cot again , And tells her tales — his full heart over glad— Of all the glorious sight his eyes have had ; But finds too soon his want of eloquence ; The silly prattler ...
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... Feels no sad thoughts nor cruciating cares To gain more good or shun what might thee harm ; Thy cloathes ne'er wear , thy meat is everywhere , Thy bed a bough , thy drink the water clear , Reminds not what is past nor what's to come ...
... Feels no sad thoughts nor cruciating cares To gain more good or shun what might thee harm ; Thy cloathes ne'er wear , thy meat is everywhere , Thy bed a bough , thy drink the water clear , Reminds not what is past nor what's to come ...
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... feeling for nature . Bartram has left the written record or journal of extensive travels in the interest of scien- tific observation of nature ; and his son William has left writings of the same general character . Sewall . Probably the ...
... feeling for nature . Bartram has left the written record or journal of extensive travels in the interest of scien- tific observation of nature ; and his son William has left writings of the same general character . Sewall . Probably the ...
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... feeling , from lines 11-20 , the metrical accents correspond with the rhetorical ; and how the broken line , 8 , corresponds with the weak and broken utterance of the dying girl . While , his- torically , Godfrey's name is much less ...
... feeling , from lines 11-20 , the metrical accents correspond with the rhetorical ; and how the broken line , 8 , corresponds with the weak and broken utterance of the dying girl . While , his- torically , Godfrey's name is much less ...
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