Principles of English Grammar: Used by the Brothers of the Christian SchoolsW.H. Sadlier, 1890 - 260 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
accent adjective adjunct adverb adverbial phrase Analyze the following beautiful CHAPTER comma comparative compound Conjugate conjunction connected dependent clause employed EXERCISES expresses action following sentences forms of expression Future Perfect Tense gender grammatical hath heart Heptameter Idioms formed imperative mood imperfect tense indicative mood infinitive mood interjection interrogative language letters living loved meaning metre Monometer neuter NEWMAN nominative noun or pronoun object old English omitted parse perfect participle person and number person or thing person singular personal pronouns placed Pluperfect Tense plural number poetry possessive potential mood preceded predicate preperfect preposition Present Tense prose relation relative rhyming rhythm rhythmic second person sense sentence-building Shakespeare simple declarative sentence singular number slang sometimes sound speak speech stanza studying subject is modified subjunctive mood suffix superlative syllable Tetrameter thee third person thou hast thought transitive verb Trimeter verse vowel write
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Página 249 - I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fare, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 139 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 226 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 164 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall...
Página 227 - COUNT each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee. Do thou With courtesy receive him : rise and bow : And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, crave Permission first his heavenly feet to lave, Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow, Or mar thy hospitality, no wave Of mortal tumult to obliterate Thy soul's marmoreal calmness.
Página 243 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...
Página 101 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Página 226 - And down she sucked with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Página 43 - She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell, was dead. Her little bird — a poor slight thing the pressure of a finger would have crushed — was stirring nimbly in its cage; and the strong heart of its child-mistress was mute and motionless for ever.
Página 253 - ... that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still flourished- in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca.