A Practical Grammar of the English LanguageP. Morton, 1879 - 288 pages |
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accented action active voice adjunct adverb anapest Anglo-Saxon antecedent apples assertion auxiliary perfect participle belong to nouns Cæsar called comma common noun comparative compound conjunction connected DEFECTIVE VERBS denotes elected employed equivalent examples EXERCISES factitive feminine finite verb following verbs gender gerund Give grammatical predicate Grammatical subject happy horse idea imperative mood imperfect infinitive INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood interrogative intransitive James John letter limiting adjectives logical predicate loved masculine meaning modified nominative absolute noun in apposition noun-proposition nouns expressed number and person object PARSING passive participle passive voice past tense PAST-PERFECT person singular plural possessive preceding predicate-nominative preposition present tense PRESENT-PERFECT TENSE refer regarded relative pronoun Remark river Rule second person sense singular number speaker subjunctive subjunctive mood superlative syllable thee thing third person thou transitive verb trochee verse walk wish word write
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Page 266 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 282 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 284 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 127 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 204 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 275 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 286 - he said, and pointed toward the land, ' This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon.
Page 268 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 265 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 247 - And out spake strong Herminius — Of Titian blood was he: " I will abide on thy left side, And keep the bridge with thee," " Horatius," quoth the Consul, " As thou sayest, so let it be." And straight against that great array Forth went the dauntless Three. For Romans in Rome's quarrel Spared neither land nor gold, Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, In the brave days of old.