A Progressive Course in English for Secondary Schools: Literature, Composition, Rhetoric, GrammarSibley, 1906 - 455 pagina's |
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A Progressive Course in English for Secondary Schools: Literature ... Charles Maurice Stebbins Volledige weergave - 1906 |
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adjectives adverbs appearance Arthur Athelstane Black Knight Bracebridge Carton Casca castle Cedric central thought chapter character characteristics Christ's Hospital Christmas clauses close coherence composition connection conversation Darnay Defarge definite dependent clauses effect Elaine elements English essay EXERCISE Explain exposition expressions feelings figures following sentences Gareth Give reasons given Gurth Ichabod Crane ideas impression impressionistic interest introduced Irving's Isaac Ivanhoe Julius Cæsar kind King Lamb's Lancelot letter look Lucie Lygian Lynette Madame Defarge Manette means morning narration narrative nature nouns object omitted oral paragraph person Pheidippides phrases poem Prince John pronoun proper pupil purpose Questions Reasons for answer Rebecca relation respect Rowena scene significance Sir Launfal sketch spirit stanza story Study the following suggested syllables tell Templar tence theme things tion topics traits TRYSTING TREE unity various verb vivid Wamba words Write
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Pagina 39 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Pagina 27 - The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound...
Pagina 47 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pagina 241 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Pagina 10 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Pagina 25 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Pagina 66 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Pagina 448 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Pagina 13 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Pagina 442 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...