English grammar, by L. Direy and A. Foggo1858 |
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Strana 53
... gun will go off , if you pull the trigger ; don't do that , for it is wrong ; he is poor , but he is generous ; he breathes , then he is alive . The three conjunctions by which we connect , either idea OF THE ABBREVIATIVE . 53.
... gun will go off , if you pull the trigger ; don't do that , for it is wrong ; he is poor , but he is generous ; he breathes , then he is alive . The three conjunctions by which we connect , either idea OF THE ABBREVIATIVE . 53.
Strana 64
... wrong in human actions . Blair . Among accessory propositions relating to a pronoun or a noun , it is proper to distinguish those which are digressive , separable , and could be suppressed without the sense being destroyed , from those ...
... wrong in human actions . Blair . Among accessory propositions relating to a pronoun or a noun , it is proper to distinguish those which are digressive , separable , and could be suppressed without the sense being destroyed , from those ...
Strana 67
... member by member , is the best of exercises for the learner of languages . It serves also to remove difficulties , and to lay bare any wrong con- struction . OF AGREEMENT . AGREEMENT is the law of harmony which SYNTAX . 67.
... member by member , is the best of exercises for the learner of languages . It serves also to remove difficulties , and to lay bare any wrong con- struction . OF AGREEMENT . AGREEMENT is the law of harmony which SYNTAX . 67.
Strana 69
... wrong to say : The second book of the Eneid is one of the greatest master - pieces that ever was executed by any hand . ( Blair . ) The antecedent of that is unquestionably master - pieces , not one . Writers , however , give rather ...
... wrong to say : The second book of the Eneid is one of the greatest master - pieces that ever was executed by any hand . ( Blair . ) The antecedent of that is unquestionably master - pieces , not one . Writers , however , give rather ...
Strana 73
... - ment of the verb takes place with one only : What words are sufficient to express that folly and want of consideration which in such a case makes a wrong choice ! Spectator . E You may say , as many young people would , OF AGREEMENT . 73.
... - ment of the verb takes place with one only : What words are sufficient to express that folly and want of consideration which in such a case makes a wrong choice ! Spectator . E You may say , as many young people would , OF AGREEMENT . 73.
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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.