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Pagina 54
... comes a time in the life of every man " is the preacher's cliché : it recurs in every sermon ; you wait for it and smile when it comes . Do you ever interpose in your talk , " You know " ? It is a curious expletive ; for if your auditor ...
... comes a time in the life of every man " is the preacher's cliché : it recurs in every sermon ; you wait for it and smile when it comes . Do you ever interpose in your talk , " You know " ? It is a curious expletive ; for if your auditor ...
Pagina 59
... come to dedicate a portion of that field " . The second sentence gives the reason for the first statement . The third amplifies the reason . Then , in a natural transition , the call to a following of the example comes ; and the final ...
... come to dedicate a portion of that field " . The second sentence gives the reason for the first statement . The third amplifies the reason . Then , in a natural transition , the call to a following of the example comes ; and the final ...
Pagina 223
... come back ? Have you been to the wars ? You'll take me with you when you go again ? Why didn't you write to us ? Come to mother . " ( THACKERAY , Henry Esmond . ) ( b ) No one knows how good the world is , till grief comes to try us ...
... come back ? Have you been to the wars ? You'll take me with you when you go again ? Why didn't you write to us ? Come to mother . " ( THACKERAY , Henry Esmond . ) ( b ) No one knows how good the world is , till grief comes to try us ...
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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