The Structure of the English SentenceAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 244 pages |
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absolute phrase adverb adverbial clause American Book Company Analyze the following anticipative subject Bagehot base-word Bolles Boyesen Burroughs called Carlyle CHAPTER Cincinnati Chicago clause modifies clause of degree clause of manner complex-compound sentence compound sentence connective construction coördinating dependent proposition Dickens direct object ellipsis elliptical Emerson English equivalent example Exercise expression following sentences frequently Froude George Eliot gerund grammatical group of words heart hence Higginson Holmes Howells idea independent element infinitive phrase introduced Introductory Word Irving J. F. Clarke ject jective King Kipling Lewis Carroll Longfellow Lord Lowell Macaulay meaning mind Motley nature never noun clause omitted participial phrase participle prepositional phrase Prescott principal proposition question Quincey relation relative pronoun restrictive adjective clause Ruskin Schools sentences containing sometimes Stevenson subjective complement subordinating conjunction supply tell temporal clause tence thing thought tion transitive verb usually Webster York American
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Page 211 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 237 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 234 - ... stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground ; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news...
Page 236 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
Page 10 - Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle personages of the village...
Page 94 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 230 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
Page 27 - Thou say'st, thou art not Rustum ; be it so ! Who art thou then, that canst so touch my soul? Boy as I am, I have seen battles too— Have waded foremost in their bloody waves, And heard their hollow roar of dying men ; But never was my heart thus touch'd before.
Page 233 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 84 - And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong.