A Manual of Good EnglishGeorge Newnes, 1950 - 318 pagina's To improve writing techniques. |
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Pagina 11
... bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave " is more effective than " Then shall ye bring my old age with sorrow to death . " We must , indeed , have abstractions . It is by means of these that we reason . To grasp an abstract ...
... bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave " is more effective than " Then shall ye bring my old age with sorrow to death . " We must , indeed , have abstractions . It is by means of these that we reason . To grasp an abstract ...
Pagina 115
... bring Cowslips for her covering . FIGURES OF SPEECH . ( See " ( Epitaph . ) ' Simile , Metaphor " , etc. ) ( a ) All flesh is grass , is not only metaphorically , but literally true ; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs ...
... bring Cowslips for her covering . FIGURES OF SPEECH . ( See " ( Epitaph . ) ' Simile , Metaphor " , etc. ) ( a ) All flesh is grass , is not only metaphorically , but literally true ; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs ...
Pagina 165
... bring a person to book " is to put him to the test he is constrained to bring forward the authority upon which he based his statement . To speak like a book " is to speak with complete accuracy of information : it is as though you had ...
... bring a person to book " is to put him to the test he is constrained to bring forward the authority upon which he based his statement . To speak like a book " is to speak with complete accuracy of information : it is as though you had ...
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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