The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential Rules of English Grammar, EtcWaitt & Dow, 1832 - 160 Seiten |
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... figures , and sublimest machinery . A comparison , having several terms , and introduced , by an adjective implying likeness , may have a comma preceding it . As , The music of Carryl , was like the memory of joys , that are past ...
... figures , and sublimest machinery . A comparison , having several terms , and introduced , by an adjective implying likeness , may have a comma preceding it . As , The music of Carryl , was like the memory of joys , that are past ...
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... figures , are used as references to marginal notes . The Index or hand [ ] points out something re- markable . A Brace [ ] unites three poetical lines ; or connects a number of words , in prose , with something to which they are all ...
... figures , are used as references to marginal notes . The Index or hand [ ] points out something re- markable . A Brace [ ] unites three poetical lines ; or connects a number of words , in prose , with something to which they are all ...
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... figure may be used with elegance , the speaker , or writer , should be careful to shun all ambi- guity of expression . Whenever the meaning is dark- ened , the figure is improperly used . Simple sentences are seldom elliptical : but ...
... figure may be used with elegance , the speaker , or writer , should be careful to shun all ambi- guity of expression . Whenever the meaning is dark- ened , the figure is improperly used . Simple sentences are seldom elliptical : but ...
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... the expressions demand a particular emphasis , we must dispense with the figure . ' O , send out thy light and thy truth . The Lord is my light and my salvation . ' ELLIPSIS OF THE VERB . ▾ And knowest not , 106 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... the expressions demand a particular emphasis , we must dispense with the figure . ' O , send out thy light and thy truth . The Lord is my light and my salvation . ' ELLIPSIS OF THE VERB . ▾ And knowest not , 106 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... Figures of Speech . Figures of speech always denote some departure from simplicity of expression ; they represent , in a for- cible manner , the idea which we intend to express , and present it with the addition of some circumstance ...
... Figures of Speech . Figures of speech always denote some departure from simplicity of expression ; they represent , in a for- cible manner , the idea which we intend to express , and present it with the addition of some circumstance ...
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