Connectives of English Speech: The Correct Usage of Prepositions, Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and Adverbs Explained and IllustratedFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1904 - 324 páginas |
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... derive from this source often a wonderful continuity , with- out which his profound conceptions could not find adequate expression . In order to represent some thoughts , style needs a certain sweep of sustained expression , like the ...
... derive from this source often a wonderful continuity , with- out which his profound conceptions could not find adequate expression . In order to represent some thoughts , style needs a certain sweep of sustained expression , like the ...
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... derived from the Latin pre , before , and pono , place . The preposition is a word usually placed before another , which is called its object , and which it is said to " govern . " * Yet a little consideration will show that this so ...
... derived from the Latin pre , before , and pono , place . The preposition is a word usually placed before another , which is called its object , and which it is said to " govern . " * Yet a little consideration will show that this so ...
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... derived fronꞌ aft or æftan , back , behind , after , first reinforced by the prefix be or bi- , by , near , forming baft , which was in use as a separate word in the fourteenth century . This was further reinforced by the prefix a ...
... derived fronꞌ aft or æftan , back , behind , after , first reinforced by the prefix be or bi- , by , near , forming baft , which was in use as a separate word in the fourteenth century . This was further reinforced by the prefix a ...
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... can talk when we get aboard the train . 3. Across or alongside of : a secondary nautical meaning ; as , to lay the ship aboard the enemy . ABOUT About is derived from the Anglo - Saxon ābūtan 13 aboard DEFINED AND ILLUSTRATED.
... can talk when we get aboard the train . 3. Across or alongside of : a secondary nautical meaning ; as , to lay the ship aboard the enemy . ABOUT About is derived from the Anglo - Saxon ābūtan 13 aboard DEFINED AND ILLUSTRATED.
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... derived from the Anglo - Saxon ābūtan , which is com- posed of an- , on , plus būtan , outside . About thus signifies directly and literally on the outside of . I. Of place or space : 1. Surrounding ( an object ) on all sides , so as to ...
... derived from the Anglo - Saxon ābūtan , which is com- posed of an- , on , plus būtan , outside . About thus signifies directly and literally on the outside of . I. Of place or space : 1. Surrounding ( an object ) on all sides , so as to ...
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A. P. STANLEY Adjectives adverb amid Anglo-Saxon antecedent beneath Brutus Cæsar CARLYLE clause Compare connection CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS derived direction Distinctions EMERSON English Grammar vol equivalent expression fact force friends GEORGE ELIOT hath Henry Hist idea implied infinitive interrogative IRVING J. R. SEELEY JEAN INGELOW John Julius Cæsar king language lect LONGFELLOW LOWELL MACAULAY England vol MAETZNER English Grammar meaning Merchant of Venice Middlemarch midst MILTON Paradise Lost motion N. P. WILLIS never night NOTE.-In noun object omitted Paradise Lost bk participle person place or space R. H. DANA reason reference relative pronoun SCOTT Lady sense sentence Sermons SHAKESPEARE SHAKESPEARE Merry Wives ship side soul speak speech Standard Dictionary Tempest act TENNYSON thee things thou thought tion unto usage various relations Venice act verb whence whither WHITTIER Windsor act Wives of Windsor word WORDSWORTH
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Página 69 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 254 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Página 216 - I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell. All. Ding, dong, bell. Bass. So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Página 207 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 158 - I cannot tell, this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Página 196 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Página 306 - Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great ; Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were fairly sold : The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Página 82 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 310 - Tell me, where is fancy * bred, Or in the heart, or in the head ? How begot, how nourished ? Reply, reply. It is engender'd in the eyes, With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies : Let us all ring fancy's knell ; I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Página 10 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.