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The opening sentence or opening line stands at the beginning of a written work. The opening line is part or all of the opening sentence that may start the lead paragraph . For older texts the Latin term incipit ('it begins') is in use for the very first words of the opening sentence.
These are not merely catchy sayings. Even though some sources may identify a phrase as a catchphrase, this list is for those that meet the definition given in the lead section of the catchphrase article and are notable for their widespread use within the culture. This list is distinct from the list of political catchphrases.
The Columbian Orator is an example of progymnasmata, containing examples for students to copy and imitate. It is significant for inspiring a generation of American abolitionists , including orator and former slave Frederick Douglass ; essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson ; and author Harriet Beecher Stowe , best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin .
Inspirational Quotes About Success "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”—
Ibonia, oral epic of Madagascar (first transcription: 1870) Martín Fierro by José Hernández (1872) Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson (c. 1874) Clarel by Herman Melville (1876) The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1876) L'Atlàntida by Jacint Verdaguer (1877) The Light of Asia by Edwin Arnold (1879)
The book received numerous positive reviews. For example, Kirkus Reviews wrote, "The best pieces in the book, such as a wonderful essay on Navajo place names, combine this ethic with a profound attention to local knowledge and old ways of knowing; echoing Borges, Momaday proclaims that for him paradise is a library, but also 'a prairie and a plain . . .
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 By the Seashore, Isle of Man 1833 "Why stand we gazing on the sparkling Brine," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Isle of Man 1833 "A youth too certain of his power to wade" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...