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Pagina 86
... phrase is at times highly effective . The phrase in parenthesis in the lines from Omar Khayyám is a good example . Here are others : In the stalls , still in her black widow's hood , sat Esmond's dear mistress , her son by her side ...
... phrase is at times highly effective . The phrase in parenthesis in the lines from Omar Khayyám is a good example . Here are others : In the stalls , still in her black widow's hood , sat Esmond's dear mistress , her son by her side ...
Pagina 95
... phrase an impartial judgment of his " signifies a judgment by him ; " an impartial judgment of him " signifies a judgment concerning him . A friend of Tom's " would be one whom Tom likes ; " a friend of Tom " would be one who likes Tom ...
... phrase an impartial judgment of his " signifies a judgment by him ; " an impartial judgment of him " signifies a judgment concerning him . A friend of Tom's " would be one whom Tom likes ; " a friend of Tom " would be one who likes Tom ...
Pagina 128
... phrases " familiar to our mouths as household words " ; they come pat ; and we utter them without having any sense of indebtedness . Yet we should be sparing in our use of ready - made phrases . For , torn from its context , the phrase ...
... phrases " familiar to our mouths as household words " ; they come pat ; and we utter them without having any sense of indebtedness . Yet we should be sparing in our use of ready - made phrases . For , torn from its context , the phrase ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cæsura 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 Cæsar 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