A Grammar of the English LanguageCowperthwait & Company, 1875 - 323 pages |
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abridged proposition accent according to Rule adjective element adverb adverbial element apposition Aristippus auxiliary auxiliary verb belongs called CAUTION comma common noun complex predicate compound consonant construction coördinate conjunction copula denotes Ex.-The Exercise express following examples following sentences form,-inf FUTURE PERFECT TENSE Give the rule grammatical hast hence idea indicative mode infinitive interrogative pronoun intransitive joined letter limiting adjective loved meaning MODEL modify neuter nominative nominative absolute noun or pronoun parse passive voice past participle past perfect past tense PERFECT TENSE personal pronoun phrase poet possessive preceded prefix PRESENT PERFECT PRESENT PERFECT TENSE present tense principal clause prog relation relative pronoun represent second person shalt signification simple predicate sing singular number sometimes speaking subjunctive subordinate clause subordinate connective substantive subvocals syllable Syntax Tell thee thing third person thou transitive verb triphthong vowel words write written
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Page 172 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Page 172 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Page 122 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor. And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Page 101 - I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a. once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing...
Page 161 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 323 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 178 - Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead; And he, neglected...
Page 161 - Unfading HOPE ! when life's last embers burn, When soul to soul, and dust to dust return ! . Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour ! Oh ! then, thy kingdom comes ! Immortal Power...
Page 322 - Ye nymphs of Solyma ! begin the song : To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. The mossy fountains and the sylvan shades, The dreams of Pindus and th...
Page 154 - OF all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is, For gift or grace, surpassing this — ' He giveth His beloved sleep ' ? What would we give to our beloved?