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123 Chestnut Street 456 Wood Street ९९ allusion appearance brief business letter chap chapter character CHARLES DICKENS Charles Lamb Chestnut Street Portland clear coherence composition Contrast course Daniel E David Copperfield Dear definite developed Dickens diction discussion effective emphasis employer English essay exposition and argument expository expressions fact feeling formal letter forms of discourse George Eliot Gervase Markham hand human ideas illustrations informal argument informal letter interest Jane Austen Josiah Royce kind labor language length letter writing literary literature Lord Byron Mansfield Park material means ment method Middlemarch mind minimum wage narration nature never objects paragraph present principles question reader reading reason result selection sense sentence September 19 slang social letters sort speaker speech story Student theme subject matter talk things thought tion topics usage verbs Washington Irving Wood Street Bristol words written
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Page 127 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 164 - I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries...
Page 70 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children, in the arms or on the backs or at the heels of their mothers and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance...
Page 46 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 275 - There were no attendants at home ; they had absconded to make merry in honor of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my back was turned.
Page 180 - The nation itself, with all its socalled internal improvements, which, by the way, are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.
Page 271 - I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one; but as prose writing has been of great use to me in the course of my life, and was a principal means of my advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I have in that way.
Page 45 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 223 - I had been to my good aunt, to go and give her good gift away to a stranger that I had never seen before, and who might be a bad man for aught I knew ; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I — I myself, and not another — would eat her nice cake, — and what should I say to her the next time I saw her, — how naughty I was to part with her pretty present...
Page 178 - He was bred to no profession; he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted; he refused to pay a tax to the State; he ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco; and, though a naturalist, he used neither trap nor gun.