The Essentials of Prose CompositionEldredge & Brother, 1902 - Всего страниц: 219 |
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action Addison adverb Anne Boleyn ARNOLD assertion balanced sentence bear-baiting beginning blunders called character Chingachgook clause clear composition conditioned statement connection contrast criticism describe effect ELIOT English Ernest never essay example exposition expression eyes fact fiction force forcible George Eliot give grammatical habit Hamlin Garland hand Hawkeye Hawthorne Hill illustrate impression Irving kind larvæ link-paragraph look Macaulay Macaulay's Magua manner matter Matthew Arnold means merely Milton mind narration narrative ness object paper paragraph pass passage peculiar periodic sentence person phrase poet present principle proper Quincey reader relative clause Repeated Structure Rhetoric Roger treated scene sense sentence of conditioned sentence-structure sequence short Silas Marner Sir Launfal Sir Roger specimen story streets student teacher tence Theseus things thought tion town truth unity usually verb whole words writer young
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