English Grammar, with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and PunctuationD.C. Heath, 1887 - 189 pages |
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abstract nouns accented syllable adjective adverb amphibrachs anapæstic Browning Browning's Cæsar cæsura called cognate comes from Lat Compare compound conjunction connected consonant dactyls dative denotes diminutive direct object doublet ending is disguised English language English words example feminine French function Future Perfect Future Perfect Tense gender gerund govern Grammar Hence hybrids iambic pentameter Imperative Mood INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive inflexions Intransitive John Julius Cæsar kind Latin Low Lat masculine meaning Milton modifies neuter nominative participle passive Past Indefinite Tense Past Perfect past tense Perfect Continuous Perfect Tense phrase plural poems poet poetry possessive Predicate Prefixes preposition Present Perfect Price by mail Principal Sentence reader rhymes Roman root RULE Shakespeare simple sentences Singular sometimes sound speak striking struck Subjunctive Mood subordinate sentence Syntax Tetrameter thing thou tion transitive verb trochees verbal noun verse vowel walked write written
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Page 183 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 171 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 87 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 108 - But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Page 71 - Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the...
Page 37 - There are three degrees of comparison ; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.
Page 194 - Tis life, whereof our nerves are scant, Oh life, not death, for which we pant; More life, and fuller, that I want.
Page 183 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page 172 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Page 174 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.