Elementary English Composition for High Schools and AcademiesCharles Scribner's Sons, 1905 - 328 ページ |
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Alfred Tennyson Arthur Balmung beauty Bedivere Beowulf Beowulf and Grendel birds bobolink Cæsar called capital letters castle clauses Colchis comma composition Composition.-Tell the story Cyclops death Describe dragon Echo English EXERCISE expression eyes Fairy fell fire Geats Gellert give glory Greeks Grendel hand head heard Henry Thoreau horse intransitive verb italicized Julius Cæsar Jupiter King land LESSON live Lord mark Memorize:-FROM mountains never night NOTE Notice Oral Composition.-1 outline paragraph Persians Peter Klaus phrases Pied Piper prince Principles-The Sentence punctuation quotation Rabbit REFERENCES FOR READING rime river scene ship Sir Walter Scott sleep stanza stood street stress sword syllable Tarnhelm Tell the story tence thee theme Theme:-THE thou thought tion topic sentence town trees Ulysses valley William Edmonstoune Aytoun wind wolf woods words
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48 ページ - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn: Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven— All's right with the world! When the subordinate clauses are subdivided by semicolons, the main clauses are usually separated by colons.
195 ページ - THE TASK: THE WINTER EVENING." Now stir the fire and close the shutters fast,— Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn 'Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in. —William Cowper.
7 ページ - A HAPPY LIFE." How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. —Henry Wotton.
59 ページ - Yet on the nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To* hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
150 ページ - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. —Edmund Waller.
144 ページ - I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never
306 ページ - IV., i :— I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the wave her structure rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand, Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times,
280 ページ - they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the
12 ページ - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanish'd from my sight; And I pluck'da hollow reed. And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear. —William Blake.
282 ページ - receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart: That, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death. —William Shakespeare.