English composition, by W. Davidson and J.C. Alcock. [With] Key, Volume 1 |
Common terms and phrases
adjective sentence adverb adverbial sentence Avoid battle Cćsar captain chamois Change the following clauses co-ordinate sentences comma Commencement Complete the following death Demosthenes direct object Duke eagle Emmington Enallage English Enlarge each subject Example EXERCISE Express the following eyes father following sentences gerund Grammar and Analysis grammatical Greek hath heard heart Hyperbaton imperative mood Indirect Interrogation James Best James Watt John Byron John Hampden Julius Cćsar kind king language letter Lord Madam meaning Metonymy mind nature never night OBS.-The paragraph paraphrase participle passed person Pleonasm Précis predicate consisting preposition Prince pronoun Punctuate the following Right Honourable rose Rule sentences by supplying Servant Simile simple sentences sound stood storm style subjunctive subjunctive mood subordinate sentences Superscription supplying a predicate Synecdoche tence thee things thou thought verb virtue wind words and phrases writing young
Popular passages
Page 57 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 48 - THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 113 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 114 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 58 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews, it seems, is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion. This authority of the knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all...
Page 158 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 117 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 58 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 112 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 97 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked.