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... questions as to the paragraphs from Thackeray . Show by lists how Webster , rising to the importance of the occasion and of his message , uses large and somewhat unusual words ; yet Thackeray , writing of the most solemn and truly awful ...
... questions as to the paragraphs from Thackeray . Show by lists how Webster , rising to the importance of the occasion and of his message , uses large and somewhat unusual words ; yet Thackeray , writing of the most solemn and truly awful ...
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... question or an exclamation . EXERCISE 9- - Written The two rules given above sound very simple ; but they are not easy to follow . Nearly all beginners in composition fre- quently write two sentences rather closely connected in thought ...
... question or an exclamation . EXERCISE 9- - Written The two rules given above sound very simple ; but they are not easy to follow . Nearly all beginners in composition fre- quently write two sentences rather closely connected in thought ...
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... question mark to close a question , an excla- mation mark to close an exclamatory expression . EXERCISE 11 - Written These first three rules cover the punctuation and capital- ization of the sentence as a whole . Punctuate correctly the ...
... question mark to close a question , an excla- mation mark to close an exclamatory expression . EXERCISE 11 - Written These first three rules cover the punctuation and capital- ization of the sentence as a whole . Punctuate correctly the ...
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... question marks , and excla- mation marks : 1. but what are these grave thoughts to thee out , out into the open air thy only dream is liberty , thou carest little how or where 2. o holy night from thee i learn to bear what man has borne ...
... question marks , and excla- mation marks : 1. but what are these grave thoughts to thee out , out into the open air thy only dream is liberty , thou carest little how or where 2. o holy night from thee i learn to bear what man has borne ...
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... question or an exclamation , that is , when the words quoted would end with a period if unquoted ; if they would end with an exclamation mark or an interrogation point , do not change these marks in quoting . EXAMPLES : " I am here ...
... question or an exclamation , that is , when the words quoted would end with a period if unquoted ; if they would end with an exclamation mark or an interrogation point , do not change these marks in quoting . EXAMPLES : " I am here ...
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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.