A Comprehensive Grammar of the English LanguagePhinney, Blakeman, and Mason, 1861 - 354 من الصفحات |
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accent according to Rule adjective adjunct adverb anapest antecedent apples auxiliary auxiliary verbs beautiful belongs better called capital clause collective noun comma common compound conjunctions connected denotes discourse Exercises express finite verb flowers frequently gender grammar grammarians hence horse imperative mood implies indefinite indicative mood infinitive interjection interrogative John language mány meaning metonymy modified mood moved neuter never nominative noun or pronoun o'er object omitted parsed passive perfect participle person and number phrase PLEONASM plural poet poetry possessive potential mood preceding predicate predicate-verb preposition present preterit principal proper reference relates relative clause relative pronoun river sense sentence singular number sometimes sound speaker speech subject-nominative subjunctive subjunctive mood substantive syllables synecdoche taken tense term thee thing thou thought tive transitive verb tree trochee usually vowel words write written
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الصفحة 266 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
الصفحة 40 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union : on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched it may be in fraternal blood...
الصفحة 272 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
الصفحة 318 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
الصفحة 37 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
الصفحة 263 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land.
الصفحة 304 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
الصفحة 239 - And the three companies blew the trumpets and brake the pitchers and held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!
الصفحة 308 - Our eyelids: other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest; Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of heaven on all his ways; While other animals unactive range, And of their doings God takes no account.
الصفحة 259 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.