A Progressive Grammar of the English Tongue: Based on the Results of Modern PhilologyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 207 páginas |
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adjective element adverb adverbial phrase Anglo-Saxon antecedent apposition auxiliary brother called clause comma Common Noun complement Complete Complex Sentence compound sentence conjugation conjunction connected correct denote ellipsis English Grammar English language enlargement etymology Example Exercise EXPLANATION.-Here EXPLANATION.-The EXPLANATION.-This EXPLANATION.-This sentence express following Sentences Future Perfect gender geschrie hence ILLUSTRATIONS IMPERATIVE MOOD Incomplete verb INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive inflection introduced Latin letter loved means Name or write nominative NOTE number and person object parsed Parser and Analyzer Passive Voice Past Participle Past Perfect Past Tense peculiar Perf person singular Personal Pronoun Plural Number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD PRACTICAL SYNTAX predicate preposition Present Perfect Present Tense PRINCIPAL PROPOSITIONS pupil Relative Adverbs relative pronoun river rule Saxon second person Simple sentence singular number sometimes speak speech statement Subjunctive Mood suffix superlative teacher tence thing third person Thou tion transitive verb walk words
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Página 198 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 198 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Página 195 - The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Página 197 - His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, ' Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire ; N lie asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall...
Página 164 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...
Página 198 - While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, '"Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 197 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 197 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Página 160 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.
Página 161 - Read this Declaration at the head of the army; every sword will be drawn from its scabbard, and the solemn vow uttered, to maintain it, or to perish on the bed of honor.