Grammatical Synthesis: The Art of English CompositionC. Scribner, 1867 - 356 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
abnormal Abstracts accordingly action or relation adjective adjunct adverbs Affirmative asserting element attribute auxiliary belongs CHAPTER character Class-nouns Clausal clauses Collective Nouns comma composite concrete condition Conjunction Construct sentences contingent judgment definition denoting discourse distinction distinguish English language EXAMPLES explained expressing the copula factitive following sentences Form-words gender gerund grammatical imperative imperative mood Indicative Mood infinitive inflection Interrogative ject John kind king limit loved mark Mass-nouns mind modals modified in respect mortal nature object of thought OBSERVATION ORAL EXERCISE originally participle passive phrase pleonasms PLUPERFECT TENSE plural points Potential Potential Mood predicate preposition present principle Pronouns Proper Nouns reference regarded relative Relative Pronouns requires RULE semicolon separate simple singular speaking Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood sun shines symbols tences TENSE thee thing third person thou tion tive Transitive verb Venus verb viewed virtue vowel whole WRITTEN EXERCISE
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Página 351 - And that through every stage. When young, indeed, In full content we sometimes nobly rest, Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Página 139 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Página 65 - Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine." Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might As he had done before.
Página 198 - Natura fieret laudabile carmen, an arte, Quaesitum est : ego nee studium sine divite vena, Nee rude quid possit video ingenium ; alterius sic 410 Altera poscit opem res et conjurat amice.
Página 92 - Cicero, I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, To be exalted with the threatening clouds ; But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
Página 2 - When I came to my castle, for so I think I called it ever after this, I fled into it like one pursued.
Página 324 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud In worship of an echo; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such: I stood Among them, but not of them...
Página 221 - Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Página 321 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves ; And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves.
Página 195 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.