English grammar, by L. Direy and A. Foggo1858 |
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Strana 5
... sentence , yet without being a logical part of it , it has been aptly named the interjection . The pronoun then opens the series of the parts of speech , as the designator of the object , itself the start- ing - point of the thought ...
... sentence , yet without being a logical part of it , it has been aptly named the interjection . The pronoun then opens the series of the parts of speech , as the designator of the object , itself the start- ing - point of the thought ...
Strana 12
... sentences , among which the exclamation and the apostrophe : A - well - a - day ! I have but eight sous in the world . Sterne . O monstrous ! eleven buckram men grown out of two ! Shakspeare . O glorious trial of exceeding love ! Milton ...
... sentences , among which the exclamation and the apostrophe : A - well - a - day ! I have but eight sous in the world . Sterne . O monstrous ! eleven buckram men grown out of two ! Shakspeare . O glorious trial of exceeding love ! Milton ...
Strana 59
... sentence , a verse , a proper name . The pronoun I is always written with a capital . Reading acquaints us with these details . Writing possesses also orthographic signs , namely : the apostrophe OF CAPITALS; OF ORTHOGRAPHIC SIGNS. ...
... sentence , a verse , a proper name . The pronoun I is always written with a capital . Reading acquaints us with these details . Writing possesses also orthographic signs , namely : the apostrophe OF CAPITALS; OF ORTHOGRAPHIC SIGNS. ...
Strana 60
... - engine , sea - horse . As for the signs of punctuation , they will be spoken of at the end of the syntax , as they belong to sentences , not to words . SYNTAX . SYNTAX treats of the construction of discourse , 60 ELEMENTS .
... - engine , sea - horse . As for the signs of punctuation , they will be spoken of at the end of the syntax , as they belong to sentences , not to words . SYNTAX . SYNTAX treats of the construction of discourse , 60 ELEMENTS .
Strana 61
... sentence is made up of one or several members forming a complete sense . We have seen that the proposition is the assertion of a fact , in which we find an act with its agent and its patient , expressed by the nominative , the verb ...
... sentence is made up of one or several members forming a complete sense . We have seen that the proposition is the assertion of a fact , in which we find an act with its agent and its patient , expressed by the nominative , the verb ...
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accented accessory accusative active adjective adverbs agent anapest attribute becomes begins better Blair called close combine common comparative compound conditional conjunction connected consonant construction course designates discourse dubitative ellipsis equivalent examples expresses fancy feelings feet foot future gender give Goldsmith governed grammar heart human iambic iambus idea indefinite indicative individual infinitive interjection interrogative kind language less mark means metre Milton mind nature neuter never nominative noun object once participle past patient pentameter perfect person plural poetry Pope possessive preceded present pronoun proper proposition relation relative remark require rest rhyme seen sense sentence Shakspeare short signs singular sometimes Spectator Sterne syllable takes place talked tenses Testament thee things third thou thought understood usually verb verse viewed vowel words writing wrong
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Strana 125 - 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 124 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Strana 127 - 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 77 - 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 125 - 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 106 - 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 122 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet...
Strana 126 - 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 119 - 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.