An Elementary English Grammar: For the Use of SchoolsTaylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1851 - 216 من الصفحات |
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accented syllable addition Adjectives preceded Adverbs allied languages Anglo-Saxon blank verse called combination compound concord of number constitute copula dative denotes Derivation by means English language equivalent exhibited expressed father female forms in A. S. Formula x a gender Germany Gothic Gothic languages governed grammar Hence horse John walks Latin language Latin word letter lines male masculine measures metre mood mortal Moso-Gothic nature neuter nominative noun object Old High German Old Norse Old Saxon original British original word Past Participles past tense phrases Pleonasm plural forms plural number possessive predicate present English preterite proposition respect rhyme ridden Saxon sense sentence sh in shine shews simple elementary sounds simple single singular number small vowel speak spelling spelt spoken stanza Substantives preceded superlative syllable Syntax th in thin thine thing thou tive verb substantive verse vowel walk weak verbs whilst words ending write written
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الصفحة 187 - the force of temporal power, The attribute of awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings : But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings : It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then shew likest God's, When mercy seasons
الصفحة 205 - rolls nightly on deep Galilee. 2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn is blown That host on the morrow lay wither'd and
الصفحة 193 - to larboard, roll'd to starboard, when the surge was seething free, Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-fountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills, like gods together, careless of mankind
الصفحة 187 - all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse !—MILTON. The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it
الصفحة 200 - as the waves come, when Navies are stranded ; Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page, and groom, Tenant and master. Fast they come, fast they come, See how they gather ! Wide waves the eagle plume, Blended with heather. Cast your plaids, draw your blades, Forward each man set ! Pibroch of
الصفحة 186 - Single Rhymes.—An accented syllable standing by itself, and coming under the conditions given above, constitutes a single rhyme. Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire the patience than mislead
الصفحة 205 - as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still. 4. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide ; But through it there
الصفحة 200 - Where shall the lover rest, Whom the Fates sever, From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever ? Where through groves deep and high. Sounds the far billow ; Where early violets die U'nder the willow.—SCOTT. O'ft have I seen the sun, To do her honour. Fix himself at his noon To look upon her, A'nd hath gilt
الصفحة 198 - his doom Preserved him to more wrath, for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him. Here the admission of a supernumerary final syllable is rare. Lines of eleven syllables like the following are uncommon. Of sovran power with awful
الصفحة 205 - 1. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold : And the sheen of the spears was like