An Introductory Course in ExpositionAmerican Book Company, 1908 - 218 ページ |
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abstract animals beauty biographical BRANDER MATTHEWS called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Charles Scribner's Sons color Copyright Coventry Patmore divisions effect Emerson English essay exposition expository expression facts feel fireflies fish following paragraph forms of discourse give hand HARTLEY BURR ALEXANDER Hawthorne School HENRY VAN DYKE idea impression interest interpretation JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL kind LAFCADIO HEARN less light literary criticism literature lives look manner Matthew Arnold method Mifflin and Company mind narration nature never novel object outline passages permission of Charles permission of Houghton personality poem poetry poets presentation purpose reader ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Roger de Coverley seems sense Silas Marner soul spirit Stevenson's story student style suggestive summary tell theme things thought tion Tommy topics tree truth Walter Pater whole write
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