A Practical Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools of Every Grade

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Van Antwerp, Bragg & Company, 1868 - 264 páginas

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Página 186 - 31. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose, A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.—Goldsmith.
Página 186 - 33. When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white, With streakings of the morning light.—Drake.
Página 185 - 24. I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.—Newton.
Página 238 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky: The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh; 'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And " Gallop," gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight.
Página 71 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom: yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employment, and shall come And make their bed with
Página 127 - 1. A mercenary informer knows no distinction. 2. I send you here a sort of allegory. 3. Our island home is far beyond the sea. 4. Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might.
Página 120 - from among the Alps. 7. He went from St. Louis, across the plains, to California. 8. Light moves in straight lines, and in all directions from the point of emission. 9. They went aboard the ship. 10. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.— Young.
Página 177 - singeth all night long: And then no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome: then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time.—Shakspeare.
Página 212 - fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. II. Whether the planets are inhabited, was discussed last evening. 12. I consent to the constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure it is not the best. 13. I do not know where he is. 14. There was so much noise that I could not sleep.

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