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Title: Lessons in composition, prepared to accompany A modern English grammar
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Buehler, Huber Gray, 1864- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Newson & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r way to learn how to understand and enjoy the good speaking and writing of others than by trying to improve your own. No doubt you will agree that everyone should be at home in the great world of books in which you can travel far and wide and meet whom you will. Remember that every effort you make to master the art of language is fitting you to become a good reader, one who understands and enjoys to the full the best books of every kind. TO THE PUPILS 301 Whatever benefit comes to you from studying these lessons will come through your own earnest efforts. Learn to see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, and think for yourself. The interesting books you read were written by men who found something interesting where others saw nothing. Resolve that you will find something worth saying or writing every day, and that you will express it appropriately. If you will honestly do this,you will be both surprised and gratified to note the progress you are making in the art of English Composition.
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Image: Landscape and Waterfall. Actual title of Original: The Old Water Mill
CHAPTER I THE COMPOSITION AS A WHOLE Read the following poem :—Herve Riel. On the sea and at the Kogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French,—woe to France! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter thro the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view. II Twas the squadron that escaped, with the victor in full chase; First and foremost of the drove, in his great ship, Damfreville; Close on him fled, great and small, Twenty-two good ships in all;And they signalled to the place Help the winners of a race! Get us guidance, give us harbor, take us quick—or, quicker still, Here's the English can and will! in Then the pilots of the place put out brisk and leapt on board;Why, what hope or chance have ships like these to pass?laughed they:Rocks to starboard, rocks to port, all the passage scarred and scored, 304 LESSONS IN COMPOSITION Shall the Formidable hlessonsincomposi00bueh

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