A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of SchoolsIvison, Phinney, Blakeman, & Company, 1868 - 374 ページ |
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accent according to Rule adjective adjunct adverb anapest antecedent apples apposition auxiliary auxiliary verbs beautiful belongs better called capital comma common compound conjunctions connected consonant denotes dependent clause discourse entire predicate entire subject Exercises express finite verb flowers gender give grammar grammarians hence horse imperative mood implies indicative mood interjection interrogative John language mány meaning metonymy modified mood moved neuter never nominative noun or pronoun object omitted parsed passive person and number phrase pleonasm plural poet poetry possessive potential mood preceding predicate-verb preposition present preterit principal reference regard relates relative clause relative pronoun river sense singular number sometimes sound speaker speech subject-nominative subjunctive subjunctive mood substantive syllables taken tence tense term thee thing third person thou thought tive transitive verb tree trochee usually verb vowel words write
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331 ページ - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
301 ページ - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history: the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.
302 ページ - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
308 ページ - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of, forgotten lore, — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. '"Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door: Only this and nothing more.
338 ページ - 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.
321 ページ - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
295 ページ - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
326 ページ - In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair!
266 ページ - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
320 ページ - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.