English grammar, by L. Direy and A. Foggo1858 |
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Strana 69
... governs the singular or the plural according as the idea of collection , or the idea of the individuals which compose a collection is pre- dominant : The meeting was large . The whole procession began to move forward . Walter Scott ...
... governs the singular or the plural according as the idea of collection , or the idea of the individuals which compose a collection is pre- dominant : The meeting was large . The whole procession began to move forward . Walter Scott ...
Strana 71
... govern the verb conjointly : One and one make two . Truth and reality have all the advantages of appearance , and many more . Tillotson . The animation , the fire and rapidity which Homer throws into his battles , present to every ...
... govern the verb conjointly : One and one make two . Truth and reality have all the advantages of appearance , and many more . Tillotson . The animation , the fire and rapidity which Homer throws into his battles , present to every ...
Strana 72
... govern the verb conjointly , as if and was used : The admiration or the blame of fools are the two misfortunes of genius . I regard our public schools as places designed to give a taste for those entertainments which afford the highest ...
... govern the verb conjointly , as if and was used : The admiration or the blame of fools are the two misfortunes of genius . I regard our public schools as places designed to give a taste for those entertainments which afford the highest ...
Strana 74
... govern the verb disjointly ; the agreement taking place with the first nominative , the verb of the second being understood : The strength of the mind , no less than that of the body , is the fruit of temperance . In closing this ...
... govern the verb disjointly ; the agreement taking place with the first nominative , the verb of the second being understood : The strength of the mind , no less than that of the body , is the fruit of temperance . In closing this ...
Strana 78
... governed by an active verb or by a preposition : I see him , her ; he sees me ; they came to us ; we went to them . I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee . Shakspeare . The preposition may be understood : She gave ( to 78 SYNTAX .
... governed by an active verb or by a preposition : I see him , her ; he sees me ; they came to us ; we went to them . I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee . Shakspeare . The preposition may be understood : She gave ( to 78 SYNTAX .
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abbreviative accessory accusative active verb Addison adjective articles adverbs affixion agent anapest attribute Blair cadence close an iambic common nouns compound past conditional mood conjugation conjunction consonant designates discourse Dodsley dubitative ellipsis elliptic construction english verse expresses an act fancy gender Goldsmith grammar greek language heard others praise helmet of Navarre heptameter hexameter Hume iambic line IAMBIC TRIMETER iambus idea imperative indefinite article indefinite pronoun infinitive interjection interrogative language licence means metre Middleton Milton mind neuter verb nominative o'er object and act Old Testament patient being essentially penult plural poems poetry Pope preposition presents the act proper noun proposition relation relative pronoun rhyme rhythm second line second participle sentence Shakspeare singular sometimes SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH Spectator stanzas Sterne superlative syntax talked tenses TETRAMETER thee things third foot third person thou tive TRIMETER understood uniform metre vowel Washington Irving Webster wholly in camps word accented writing
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Strana 123 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings...
Strana 122 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Strana 125 - Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Strana 75 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Strana 123 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Strana 104 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Strana 120 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet...
Strana 124 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Strana 93 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Strana 117 - But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.