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Pagina 52
... better to say , and to write , Cheshire Cheese than That which Cestria sends , Tenacious paste of solid milk ; better to say Eggs than ovarious food , which is what the poet Thomson does as he speaks of the cragsman in the Hebrides who ...
... better to say , and to write , Cheshire Cheese than That which Cestria sends , Tenacious paste of solid milk ; better to say Eggs than ovarious food , which is what the poet Thomson does as he speaks of the cragsman in the Hebrides who ...
Pagina 68
... better , best ; bad or ill , worse , worst ; little , less , least , and so on . Thus , in " " Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all " , better is the Comparative degree of good ; in " A sorrow's crown of ...
... better , best ; bad or ill , worse , worst ; little , less , least , and so on . Thus , in " " Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all " , better is the Comparative degree of good ; in " A sorrow's crown of ...
Pagina 263
... better than " the answer is in the affirmative ” ; “ his nose " better than " his prominent feature " , " rats better than " the whiskered vermin race " . " " The idea that simple directness calls for elaboration sometimes leads to ...
... better than " the answer is in the affirmative ” ; “ his nose " better than " his prominent feature " , " rats better than " the whiskered vermin race " . " " The idea that simple directness calls for elaboration sometimes leads to ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing