Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the ... Both in Prose and Verse (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Conrosx'rmu is the art of forming ideas, and expressing them in lan guage. Its most obvious divisions, with respect to the nature of its sub jects, are the Narrative, the Descriptive, the Didactic, the Persuasive, the Pathetic, and the Argumentative. With regard to its form or style, it may be considered as concise or did'uss, as nervous or feeble,.ss dry, plain, neat, elegant or flowery, as simple, or affected, as cold or vehement, as barren or luxuriant, and its essential requisites are clearness, unity, strength and harmony. As it is strictly a mental effort, its foundation must be laid in a disciplined and cultivated mind, in the exercise of vigor ous thought, on reading and observation, and an attentive study of the meaning and the force of language. The proper preparation for its suc cessful performance should be laid in a diligent attention to the mics of grammar, a thorough knowledgehf the principles of rhetoric, and a sac cessful application of the maxims of logic; for logic must direct us in the selection of ideas, rhetoric must clothe them in a suitable dress, and grammar must adapt the dress to the peculiar form of the idea. In the following pages an attempt is made gradually to introduce the student to the several departments of English commsitiou by examples and exer cises, with such observations and illustrations as may appear to be acces sarv for an intelligent comprehension of its mics and principles. The early lessons are simple and easily performed, but, in the course of the work, suggestions will be found, which, it is thought, will be useful to those by whom composition is not regarded as a task.

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