+Direction.+—Correct all these errors in capitalization and punctuation, and give your reasons:—
1 Oliver cromwell ruled, over the english People, 2. halloo. I must speak to You! 3. john Milton, went abroad in Early Life, and, stayed, for some time, with the Scholars of Italy, 4. Most Fuel consists of Coal and Wood from the Forests 5. books are read for Pleasure and the Instruction and improvement of the Intellect, 6. In rainy weather the feet should be protected by overshoes or galoches 7. hark they are coming! 8. A, neat, simple and manly style is pleasing to Us. 9. alas poor thing alas, 10. i fished on a, dark, and cool, and mossy, trout stream.
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LESSON 25.
MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN REVIEW.
ANALYSIS.
1. By the streets of By-and-by, one arrives at the house of Never.—Spanish Proverb [Footnote: By-and-by has no real streets, the London journals do not actually thunder, nor were the cheeks of William the Testy literally scorched by his fiery gray eyes. Streets, house, colored, thunder, and scorched are not, then, used here in their first and ordinary meaning, but in a secondary and figurative sense. These words we call +Metaphors+. By what they denote and by what they only suggest they lend clearness, vividness, and force to the thought they help to convey, and add beauty to the expression.
For further treatment of metaphors and other figures of speech, see
pages 87, 136, 155, 156, 165, and Lesson 150.]
2. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators.—Gibbon.
3. The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and
every town or city.—Holmes.
4. The arrogant Spartan, with a French-like glorification, boasted forever
of little Thermopylae.—De Quincey.
5. The purest act of knowledge is always colored by some feeling of
pleasure or pain.—Hamilton.
6. The thunder of the great London journals reverberates through every
clime.—Marsh.
7. The cheeks of William the Testy were scorched into a dusky red by two
fiery little gray eyes.—Irving.
8. The study of natural science goes hand in hand with the culture of the
imagination.—Tyndall. [Footnote: Hand in hand may be treated as one
adverb, or with may be supplied.]
9. The whole substance of the winds is drenched and bathed and washed and
winnowed and sifted through and through by this baptism in the
sea.—Swain.
10. The Arabian Empire stretched from the Atlantic to the Chinese Wall, and
from the shores of the Caspian Sea to those of the Indian
Ocean.—Draper.
11. One half of all known materials consists of oxygen.—Cooke.
12. The range of thirty pyramids, even in the time of Abraham, looked down
on the plain of Memphis.—Stanley.
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