The English Language: Its Grammar, History and Literature, Part 3D. C. Heath & Company, 1920 - 466 pages |
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Adjectival adjective Adverb amphibrachs Analyse Auxiliary Ben Jonson born cæsura called century Chaucer chief comes Compare compound Conjunction connected dative denotes dialect Dr Johnson ending England English language English words essay examples EXERCISE expression following passage French words German gerund Give grammar greatest Greek guttural Hence iambic iambic pentameter Imperative Mood Indefinite Tense Infinitive inflexions John Julius Cæsar kind King large number Latin Latin words lines literary literature living London Lord meaning Milton modern English Mood never nominative Norman Norman-French noun object Ormulum participle passive Perfect person phrase plural poem poet poetry Pope possessive Predicate Prefixes preposition present Principal Sentence pronoun prose prose-writer rhymed Roman root RULE Saxon Shakespeare Singular speak speech spoken striking style Subjunctive Mood suffix Tennyson things thou thought transitive verb translation trochees verb verse write written wrote
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Page 193 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 312 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Page 81 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 406 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Page 268 - That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat. Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery. That aptly is put on.
Page 379 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 235 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Page 268 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 268 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd 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...
Page 268 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.