Grammar of the English Sentence, and Introduction to CompositionIndiana publishing Company, 1890 - Počet stran: 281 |
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abridged action antecedent apposition attribute beautiful believe better called canto clause collective noun complement complex composition compound conj conjunctive adverb connective construction coördinate copulative verb degree element enallage expletive expressed factitive finite verb Future Perfect Tense gender give Grammar grammarians Indicative infinitive inflection interjection interrogative pronoun interrogative word intransitive ject jective joins language limits Line meaning mind modifies moved neuter never nominative absolute noun or pronoun object Ordinary Style parsed passive voice Perfect Participle person and number phrase pleonasm plow Plural possessive predicate adjective prep preposition Present Perfect Present Tense principal sentence pupil refer relative pronoun represent rule scholar sent simp simple sing Singular Solemn Style sometimes speaker speech subj subjunctive subor subordinate sentence SYNTAX teacher tence thief thing thou thought tion tive transitive verb truth unmod word write
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Strana 157 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Strana 232 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Strana 67 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Strana 187 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Strana 101 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Strana 9 - Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Strana 183 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Strana 214 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.
Strana 9 - And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Strana 183 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!