The Parts of Speech: an Easy Grammar for BeginnersLondon; Dundee [printed], 1883 - 78 páginas |
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Active Verbs Active Voice Adjectival phrase Adverb Adverbial clause Adverbial phrase Antecedent battle of Crecy brave braying ass called Co-ordinative Conjunctions Common Noun Complex Sentence connects Copula Verb crow Definite Numeral Dundee Earl of Surrey England entered the cave Example fallen fell Future Tense gardener Gender grass honey Horatius Imperative Mood Indefinite Numeral Adjective Indicative Mood Intransitive Ireland Jack Jill King learned lion longer stick Masculine modifying the Verb mouldering wall Neuter Nominative Noun or Pronoun Objective Passive Voice Past Participle Past Tense person spoken Personal Pronoun Plural Number Possessive Predicate Preposition Present Tense Present Tense-Perfect Principal Clause Proper Nouns Relative Pronoun river Scotland Second Person shews the relation ship simple sentences sing both loud Singular Number Six names spider stag stands statement Subordinate Clause Subordinative Conjunction Superlative tell Third Person Thou tower Transitive Verb tree Verb write Voice.-The White Ship wood woodman word
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Página 62 - With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, — "Now tread we a measure!
Página 45 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more.
Página 78 - I take thy gold — but I have made Thy fetters fast and strong, And ween that by the cocoa shade Thy wife will wait thee long." Strong was the agony that shook The captive's frame to hear, And the proud meaning of his look Was changed to mortal fear. His heart was broken...
Página 74 - No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Página 23 - Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected...
Página 77 - The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monan's rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartney's hazel shade...
Página 78 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Página 69 - MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. I LOOKED far back into other years, and lo ! in bright array, I saw, as in a dream, the forms of ages passed away. It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls, And gardens with their broad green walks, where soft the footstep falls • And o'er the antique dial-stone the creeping shadow passed, And all around the noon-day sun a drowsy radiance cast.
Página 62 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Página 69 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone. And from his lips escaped a groan Excelsior! Try not the Pass!