Our Language: Second Book

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B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1906 - 240 ページ

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57 ページ - visible forms, she speaks A various language. For his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:
27 ページ - Shakespeare: Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: "Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that niches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. Othello
132 ページ - 9. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
80 ページ - If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
219 ページ - Point out the adverbs in the following selections, name their degrees of comparison, and tell what words they modify : 1. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory.
56 ページ - The heights by great men reached and kept "Were not attained by sudden flight; But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. —LONGFELLOW: The Ladder of St.
212 ページ - S. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. —ALFRED TENNYSON
233 ページ - the grammatical predicate is gushed. Streams is modified by the adjective abundant and the adjective phrase of revenue. Gushed is modified by the adverb forth. 2. "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. (1)
152 ページ - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
134 ページ - 1. My good blade carves the casques of men. My tough lance thrusteth sure; My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure, Sir

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