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... ourselves see or feel or think ; and in order to do this we must choose a subject that we have real thoughts or feelings about , and we must use words that are our own . EXERCISE 1- Oral SINCERE AND INSINCERE COMPOSITION Read aloud and I.
... ourselves see or feel or think ; and in order to do this we must choose a subject that we have real thoughts or feelings about , and we must use words that are our own . EXERCISE 1- Oral SINCERE AND INSINCERE COMPOSITION Read aloud and I.
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... CHOOSING A SUBJECT If you had to talk or write on five of the following subjects , which should you choose ? On how many of them should you have something to say ? About which do you know too little to speak or write sensibly ? 1 ...
... CHOOSING A SUBJECT If you had to talk or write on five of the following subjects , which should you choose ? On how many of them should you have something to say ? About which do you know too little to speak or write sensibly ? 1 ...
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... choose five words seldom or never used by you , yet well understood . Use each in a sensible sentence to show its meaning . Find five words that you could hardly at present use sincerely . How much can you learn of these five words by ...
... choose five words seldom or never used by you , yet well understood . Use each in a sensible sentence to show its meaning . Find five words that you could hardly at present use sincerely . How much can you learn of these five words by ...
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... choose to eat them . 20. A sea serpent is usually supposed to be as impossible as a mer- maid , there is some truth in the tales about them . १ ९ 21. The workmen in the fields were turning out " for the night , they all had a word of ...
... choose to eat them . 20. A sea serpent is usually supposed to be as impossible as a mer- maid , there is some truth in the tales about them . १ ९ 21. The workmen in the fields were turning out " for the night , they all had a word of ...
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... choose a smaller part of your subject to write on more defi- nitely . For example , from " A Picnic , " you might select " My First Boat Ride , " or Games in the Park , " or " An Upset . " Write on this definite subject . " e EXERCISE ...
... choose a smaller part of your subject to write on more defi- nitely . For example , from " A Picnic , " you might select " My First Boat Ride , " or Games in the Park , " or " An Upset . " Write on this definite subject . " e EXERCISE ...
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Page 74 - Tirra lirra,' by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro...
Page 23 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 230 - These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept — Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not sense to say — Who knows how grandly it had rung!
Page 120 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-Gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.
Page 76 - Shut in from all the world without, We sat the clean-winged hearth about, Content to let the north-wind roar In baffled rage at pane and door, While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of the chimney laughed...
Page 132 - Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below, So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow !
Page 232 - Morn and eve, night and day, Have I piloted your bay, Entered free and anchored fast at the foot of Solidor. Burn the fleet and ruin France? That were worse than fifty Hogues! Sirs, they know I speak the truth! Sirs, believe me there's a way! Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable...
Page 19 - Seaweed WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his wrath he scourges The toiling surges, Laden with seaweed from the rocks: From Bermuda's reefs; from edges Of sunken ledges, In some far-off, bright Azore; From Bahama, and the dashing, Silver-flashing Surges of San Salvador...
Page 172 - Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Page 118 - And the poplars tall ; And the barn's brown length, and the cattle-yard, And the white horns tossing above the wall.