A Progressive Grammar of the English Tongue: Based on the Results of Modern PhilologyHarper & brothers, 1874 - 207 páginas |
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75 cents adjective element adverb adverbial phrase Anglo-Saxon antecedent Anthon's apposition auxiliary brother Cæsar called clause Cloth comma Common Noun complement complete Complex Sentence compound sentence conjugation conjunction connected correct denote ellipsis English Grammar English language English Notes enlargement Example Exercise EXPLANATION.-Here EXPLANATION.-The EXPLANATION.-This sentence express following Sentences Future Perfect gender geschrie Greek hence HENRY DRISLER ILLUSTRATIONS IMPERATIVE MOOD Incomplete verb INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive inflection Latin letter Loomis's loved means Name or write nominative number and person object parsed Passive Voice Past Perfect Past Tense peculiar Perf person singular Personal Pronoun Plural Number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD PRACTICAL SYNTAX predicate preposition Present Perfect Present Tense PRINCIPAL PROPOSITIONS pupil Relative Adverbs relative pronoun river rule Saxon second person Sheep extra Simple sentence singular number speak speech statement Subjunctive Mood suffix tence thing third person Thou tion transitive verb walk words
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Página 198 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Página 195 - The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Página 198 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Página 197 - His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, ' Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire ; N lie asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall...
Página 23 - The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Página 195 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ) Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
Página 198 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 197 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Página 8 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 155 - We know, indeed, that the record of illustrious actions is most safely deposited in the universal remembrance of mankind. We know that if we could cause this structure to ascend, not only till it reached the skies, but till it pierced them, its broad surfaces could still contain but part of that which, in an age of knowledge, hath already been spread over the earth, and which history charges itself with making known to all future times.