A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of SchoolsHuntington and Savage, 1847 - 214 páginas |
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adjective adverbs anapestic antecedent apposition auxiliary Bancroft Boston called Channing clause comma compound Conjugate conjunction connection consonant consonant sound Correct the false defective verbs denotes diphthong ellipsis English Language Exercise express False Syntax form the plural Frazee frequently future perfect FUTURE PERFECT TENSE future tense gender Give examples governed Grammar grammarians imperfect indicative mode infinitive interjection interrogative intransitive irregular verb Irving Italics learners letter London loved masculine modify N. A. Review nominative noun or pronoun object parsing passive voice past perfect past tense perf perfect participle PERFECT TENSE perform the office person singular phrase placed ples plural possessive preceded predicate prefix preposition present perfect present tense principal pupils relation relative pronoun rule respecting second person signifies silent singular number sometimes employed speech subjunctive syllable teacher third person Thou tion tive transitive verb trochees usage verse vowel words ending Write sentences containing
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Página 163 - Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering; but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Página 205 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Página 197 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 196 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.
Página 207 - Mayflower of a forlorn hope, freighted with the prospects of a future state, and bound across the unknown sea. I behold it pursuing, with a thousand misgivings, the uncertain, the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and winter surprises them on the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-for shore.
Página 146 - O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd ! How low, how little, are the proud ! How indigent the great...
Página 187 - The reverend champion stood. At his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 163 - The 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. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of...
Página 53 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Página 187 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!