Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best English and American Authors : Designed as Exercises in Parsing : for the Use of Common Schools and AcademiesRobert S. Davis & Company, 1865 - 144 páginas |
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... o'er thee . " " He sailed between the islands . " In these examples , the adjuncts land , rest , thee , and islands , are connected with the modified words by the exponents from , for , o'er and between . NUDE ADJUNCT . An adjunct not ...
... o'er thee . " " He sailed between the islands . " In these examples , the adjuncts land , rest , thee , and islands , are connected with the modified words by the exponents from , for , o'er and between . NUDE ADJUNCT . An adjunct not ...
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... o'er the grass . Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence . We should always prepare for the worst , and hope for the best When our virtuous friends die , they are not lost ...
... o'er the grass . Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence . We should always prepare for the worst , and hope for the best When our virtuous friends die , they are not lost ...
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... o'er . EXERCISE II . The Soldier's Dream . - Campbell . 1. Our bugles sang truce - for the night cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered , - The weary to ...
... o'er . EXERCISE II . The Soldier's Dream . - Campbell . 1. Our bugles sang truce - for the night cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered , - The weary to ...
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... o'er , And my wife sobbed aloud in her fullness of heart . 6. " Stay , stay with us ― rest , thou art weary and worn : " And fain was their war - broken soldier to stay ; But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn , And the voice in ...
... o'er , And my wife sobbed aloud in her fullness of heart . 6. " Stay , stay with us ― rest , thou art weary and worn : " And fain was their war - broken soldier to stay ; But sorrow returned with the dawning of morn , And the voice in ...
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... o'er With a few big drops , that are soon repressed , For short is the stay of grief in the breast : In this enlivened and gladsome hour The spirit may burn with a brighter power ; But dearer the calm and quiet day , When the heaven ...
... o'er With a few big drops , that are soon repressed , For short is the stay of grief in the breast : In this enlivened and gladsome hour The spirit may burn with a brighter power ; But dearer the calm and quiet day , When the heaven ...
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absolute substance adjective of quality adverb amid Attica awful beauty behold bliss bosom breath bright clouds common noun conjunction connected containing the simple copula darkness deep delightful denotes dependent clause direct object distinct dust dwells earth elements eternal EXERCISE exponent exponential adjunct expresses fall finite verb flowers gentle glorious glory grammatical subject grave happy hast heart heaven hills human indicative mood intellective light living logical predicate mighty mind modified morning mountains nature neuter gender night o'er Obidah object plural number POETRY positive sentence Poss praise preposition pronoun repose rest round RULE scene shade silent simple grammatical predicate singular number smile song soul sound spirit stars stream sublime subordinate clause substantive sweet Syntax tender thee things third person thou art thought throne tion transitive verb trembling verb virtue voice wild wind wing wintry showers wonder words
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Página 116 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Página 139 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 139 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Página 47 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 46 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 140 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Página 117 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 46 - 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.
Página 33 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Página 140 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.