Sentence Improvement: A Practice Book in Applied GrammarSibley, 1910 - Počet stran: 208 |
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Strana 22
... feeling of generosity seemed to extend to all . 13. Scott's humor in conversation , as in his works , was genial and free from sting . 14. Her ability to narrate and to describe graphically was wonderful . 15. The feeling of bashfulness ...
... feeling of generosity seemed to extend to all . 13. Scott's humor in conversation , as in his works , was genial and free from sting . 14. Her ability to narrate and to describe graphically was wonderful . 15. The feeling of bashfulness ...
Strana 31
... feeling now well - nigh his end , called his two children to his side . 8. The brook , murmuring through the pebbles , kept on its way to the river . 9. Holding his white head on one side and playing vigor- ously , Solomon marched ...
... feeling now well - nigh his end , called his two children to his side . 8. The brook , murmuring through the pebbles , kept on its way to the river . 9. Holding his white head on one side and playing vigor- ously , Solomon marched ...
Strana 44
... feels ill . 3. The house is old . EXERCISE A 78. Select all verbs of incomplete predication in the following sentences , and point out the words used to complete their meaning : 1. He realizes his mistake . 2. We believe that all men ...
... feels ill . 3. The house is old . EXERCISE A 78. Select all verbs of incomplete predication in the following sentences , and point out the words used to complete their meaning : 1. He realizes his mistake . 2. We believe that all men ...
Strana 48
... feelings . 4. He thought fondly of the guineas that were only half earned . 5. Long ago the heap of coins had become too large for the iron pot to hold them . 6. A life spent worthily should be measured by a noble line , by deeds not ...
... feelings . 4. He thought fondly of the guineas that were only half earned . 5. Long ago the heap of coins had become too large for the iron pot to hold them . 6. A life spent worthily should be measured by a noble line , by deeds not ...
Strana 65
... feelings are rendered blunt and callous by custom . 9. He is thought humble by many ; but by others he is ac- counted proud . 10. He was rendered blind by the throwing of a crumb of bread . II . The stone was polished bright by the ...
... feelings are rendered blunt and callous by custom . 9. He is thought humble by many ; but by others he is ac- counted proud . 10. He was rendered blind by the throwing of a crumb of bread . II . The stone was polished bright by the ...
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Strana 146 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Strana 96 - Whose burden still, as he might guess, Was — "Shelterless, shelterless, shelterless!" The voice of the seneschal flared like a torch As he shouted the wanderer away from the porch, And he sat in the gateway and saw all night The great hall-fire, so cheery and bold, Through the window-slits of the castle old, Build out its piers of ruddy light Against the drift of the cold.
Strana 186 - To look upon its grassgrown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. On one side of the church extends a wide woody dell, along which raves a large brook among broken rocks and trunks of fallen trees. Over a deep black part of the stream, not far from the church...
Strana 208 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Strana 207 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Strana 207 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Strana 139 - That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite...
Strana 125 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Strana 43 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Strana 40 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...