The English Language: Its Grammar, History and Literature : with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and Punctuation

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D.C. Heath & Company, 1887 - 466 pages
 

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Page 215 - 0, Sir, to wilful men, The injuries that they themselves procure Must be their schoolmasters."—Shakespeare. (d) " True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance."—Pope. (e) " Who said that I had given thee up ? Who said that thou wert sold ?"—Mrs Norton. EXERCISE
Page 417 - that these are to be found in his " Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle,"—lines written about " the good Lord Clifford." " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teachers had been woods and rills,— The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 81 - ON EXCEPTIONS. 1. Sometimes the conditional clause is suppressed. Thus we can say, " I would not endure such language" [if it were addressed to me = conditional clause]. 2. The conjunction is often omitted. Thus, in Shakespeare's play of " Julius Caesar," we find— " Were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits.
Page 212 - Give me a looke, give me a face, That makes simplicitie a grace."—Id. (d) "His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain."—Goldsmith. (e) " Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather, When He, who all commands, Shall give, to call life's crew together, The word to pipe all hands."—C. Dibdin. EXERCISE
Page 231 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning."—C. Marlowe. (c) " Read in these roses the sad story Of my hard fate, and your own glory."—Carew. (d) " Thy gentle flows of guiltless joys, On fools and villains ne'er descend."—Johnson. (e) " The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide."—Burns. EXERCISE
Page 259 - Fairy tales. (c) Best way of spending holidays. (d) Advantages of the study and knowledge of geography. (159.) GRAMMAR. " I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said : ' Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the Desert. Near them, on the sand,
Page 404 - born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining." 7. Burke's most famous writings are Thoughts on the Cause of the present Discontents, published in 1773; Reflections on the
Page 394 - not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, —must give his days and nights to the study of Addison." Lord Lytton also remarks: " His style has that nameless urbanity in which we recognise the perfection of manner; courteous, but not courtier-like; so dignified, yet so kindly; so easy, yet high-bred. It is the most perfect form of English.
Page 64 - and John—the subjects in these two sentences—are in the nominative case. Thus we find in Shakespeare's Henry V., i. 2. 188 :— " So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom." Here bees is the nominative to work ; creatures
Page 377 - could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words Hicjacet.

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