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... ' Lyrical Ballads . ' See Works , vol . vi . p . 322 . for the present all thought of ornament or elegance , B 2 ( 3 ) -SENTENCES Subject and Predicate Simple Sentences Repetition of Article or Preposition before Nouns.
... ' Lyrical Ballads . ' See Works , vol . vi . p . 322 . for the present all thought of ornament or elegance , B 2 ( 3 ) -SENTENCES Subject and Predicate Simple Sentences Repetition of Article or Preposition before Nouns.
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... Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us ; but simplicity and straightforwardness are . " ( Plea for the Queen's English . ) What happened ? Where ? When ? 6 . Death 4 ENGLISH COMPOSITION . Repetition of Nouns and Phrases.
... Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us ; but simplicity and straightforwardness are . " ( Plea for the Queen's English . ) What happened ? Where ? When ? 6 . Death 4 ENGLISH COMPOSITION . Repetition of Nouns and Phrases.
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... elegant . But in No. 1 the connection is less close , and the sentence would read quite as well thus : - The blow did the Saracen very little injury ; but the Saracen , lifting up his sword , fairly struck off the poor dwarf's arm ...
... elegant . But in No. 1 the connection is less close , and the sentence would read quite as well thus : - The blow did the Saracen very little injury ; but the Saracen , lifting up his sword , fairly struck off the poor dwarf's arm ...
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... elegant ? striking ? grand ? useful ? Original inscrip- tion ? referred to in Pope's well - known lines : ' Where London's column pointing to the skies Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies . ' [ What term denotes two lines rhyming ...
... elegant ? striking ? grand ? useful ? Original inscrip- tion ? referred to in Pope's well - known lines : ' Where London's column pointing to the skies Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies . ' [ What term denotes two lines rhyming ...
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... elegant ease . the sentence would need to be entirely recast : but it may be much improved by substituting the real subject for the pronoun " they " in its two latter members : - “ The grand jury found true bills against O'Connell and ...
... elegant ease . the sentence would need to be entirely recast : but it may be much improved by substituting the real subject for the pronoun " they " in its two latter members : - “ The grand jury found true bills against O'Connell and ...
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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