A Brief English Grammar on a Logical MethodHolt & Williams, 1873 - 186 من الصفحات |
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Abstract Nouns action Adjective Clause adjective phrase Adjectives of Quality adjunct of predicate Adverbial adjunct Adverbial Clause adverbial phrase Adverbs Æneid agree agreement Analysis animals applied Attributive adjuncts auxiliaries bird Cæsar called chief word class name Collective Noun Complement COMPOUND SENTENCE contains definition Demonstrative Pronouns distinct Distinguish driving drove English enlargements examples Exercise express gender Gerund Give Grammar horse human Imperative Mood incomplete predication incomplete verbs Indefinite individual infinitive inflected for Number inflection Intransitive Julius Cæsar live meaning modes Mood noun clause object Old Conjugation participial phrase passive voice Past Tense peculiar perfect participle person or thing plural poet Possessive prepositions Present Tense Pronominal Adjectives proper qualified Questions reference relative Relative Pronoun river round rule significant speak Speech spoken stars Subjunctive Mood subordinate thee Thou tion Transitive Verbs tree Verb of incomplete walk wise
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الصفحة 152 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest perhaps...
الصفحة 130 - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
الصفحة 111 - How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading, tree...
الصفحة 80 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
الصفحة 73 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
الصفحة 55 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
الصفحة 174 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
الصفحة 129 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.
الصفحة 129 - My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good; But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?
الصفحة 53 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.