Elements of Rhetoric and English Composition: First and Second High School CoursesMacmillan, 1900 - 263 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accent addressed American anapestic argument attempt Banquo Brer Brer Fox Brer Rabbit CÆSURA called Captain Heatherington character circumstances classmates clear Columbia University convince dactylic dactylic hexameter definite Describe ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC ENGLISH COMPOSITION essay example EXERCISE exposition expression fact Faerie Queene famous English feet G. R. CARPENTER give given High School Course hills iamb iambic iambic pentameter idea Iliad illustrations Ivanhoe Julius Cæsar kind kinetoscope language Latin length literature Little Dorrit Longfellow means metre mind narration narrative natural necessary Note novel parks personal letters persuasion picture poetry principles proposition prose pupil quatrain Raoul Wilde reader RHETORIC AND ENGLISH rhyme scarcely SECOND HIGH SCHOOL sentence sestet short skill sonnet stanza story Street student suggested syllables things thought tion trochaic trochees Uncle Remus understand verse Vineland words York young
Popular passages
Page 136 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 76 - During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Page 137 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 127 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 55 - Ichabod was a suitable figure for such a steed. He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers...
Page 124 - THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH EVERY DAY, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day .... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Page 134 - So when the Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not shrink.
Page 21 - They hail'd him father to a line of kings : Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
Page 133 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 77 - ... utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium — the bitter lapse into every-day life — the hideous dropping of the veil.