A Manual of English Composition. With Copious Illustrations and Practical Exercises |
Common terms and phrases
adjective adverb Alison ancient antecedent antithesis appear Areopagitica better Burke called Charles charm chimæras Cicero clause comma Cromwell death denotes Dictionary effect elegant England English EXERCISE expression fact fault fleet following examples following instances following passage French Gibbon Grammar hath Hints History horse imagination Indicative Jeremy Taylor kind king language Latin less live London Lord mark master means metaphor metonymy mind modern nature Note noun object paragraph parenthesis Parmenio Paston Letters perhaps person Pertinax phrase plural poetry Points of story Post 8vo Predicate preposition Prescott present prose Read referred Relative Pronoun relative sentence RING OF GYGES Roman Rowley scarcely SCHOOL seems seen sense Sentences connected Shaw ships Sir Thomas Browne sometimes speak student style Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood things thirty-nine Articles thou thought tion Torbay verb whole Woodcuts words writer