The Elements of Grammar Taught in English ...Uppingham, 1885 - 248 páginas |
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ADJECTIVAL Adjectives Adverbs auxiliary verbs beauty called Case-links change of form clause clouds combination conditional sentence conjunctive mood construction denotes dependent clause distinction earth Emphatic English language EXAMPLES expressed eyes fact flowers formal Frog Future Tense grammar heart heavens horse hour imaginary IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Tense INDICATIVE MOOD indicative or fact-mood INFINITIVE MOOD instance Intransitive joined language Latin loved Plural loved Thou loves a friend mark never night notion noun o'er Objective pass PASSIVE PARTICIPLE Past Participle past tense Perfect Personal Pronouns Pluperfect Plural Number Possessive Predicate or Speech-clause Prepositions Present Participle Present Tense qualified Relative Pronouns represent RULE sense Singular Number Skiddaw sometimes sort speak speech stag stand Subject Form supposition sweet thee thing Thou couldest Thought Mood tion tive Transitive Transitive verb usage verb of mood VERBAL SUBSTANTIVE walkest walks wind words Wordsworth young ἄν εἰ
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Página 179 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 182 - Twill murmur on a thousand years, And flow as now it flows. And here, on this delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Página 104 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 123 - Forthwith a guard at every gun was placed along the wall; The beacon blazed upon the roof of Edgecumbe's lofty hall; Many a light fishing-bark put out to pry along the coast, And with loose rein and bloody spur rode inland many a post.
Página 185 - Ho ! gunners, fire a loud salute : ho ! gallants, draw your blades : Thou sun, shine on her joyously ; ye breezes, waft her wide ; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Página 183 - All the land in flowery squares, Beneath a broad and equal-blowing wind, Smelt of the coming summer, as one large cloud Drew downward: but all else of Heaven was pure Up to the Sun, and May from verge to verge, And May with me from head to heel.
Página 186 - Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the deathlike silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke. At once on all her stately gates arose the answering fires; At once the wild alarum...
Página 83 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Página 112 - Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Página 192 - I have seen him stand bareheaded — smile if you please, to a poor servant girl, while she has been inquiring of him the way to some street — in such a posture of unforced civility, as neither to embarrass her in the acceptance, nor himself in the offer, of it. He was no dangler, in the common acceptation of the word, after women : but he reverenced and upheld, in every form in which it came before him, womanhood. I have seen him...