Rules and Cautions in English Grammar Founded on the Analysis of SentencesLongmans, Green & Company, 1869 - 316 pages |
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... passage in the Winter's Tale , iv . 3 , touching upon the relation of art to nature : - This is an art Which does mend nature , change it rather ; but The art itself is nature . Shakespeare often dwells upon the distinction between ...
... passage in the Winter's Tale , iv . 3 , touching upon the relation of art to nature : - This is an art Which does mend nature , change it rather ; but The art itself is nature . Shakespeare often dwells upon the distinction between ...
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... passage : Sir Toby . Jove bless thee , master Parson . Othello , i . 1 . Clown ( personating Sir Topas the Curate ) . Bonos dies , Sir Toby for , as the old hermit of Prague , that never saw pen and ink , very wittily said to a niece of ...
... passage : Sir Toby . Jove bless thee , master Parson . Othello , i . 1 . Clown ( personating Sir Topas the Curate ) . Bonos dies , Sir Toby for , as the old hermit of Prague , that never saw pen and ink , very wittily said to a niece of ...
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... repented ; and after that I was instructed , I smote upon my Jeremiah , xxxi . 19 . thigh . In reading such a passage , it is a mistake to lay any em- phasis upon that ; the accent should fall upon ' 38 ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES .
... repented ; and after that I was instructed , I smote upon my Jeremiah , xxxi . 19 . thigh . In reading such a passage , it is a mistake to lay any em- phasis upon that ; the accent should fall upon ' 38 ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES .
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... passage , we observe that the clauses are both introduced by thar , ' there ' : ther thin gold - hord ys , thar ys thin heorte , there thy gold - hoard is , there is thine heart , where thy treasure is , there is thy heart . In modern ...
... passage , we observe that the clauses are both introduced by thar , ' there ' : ther thin gold - hord ys , thar ys thin heorte , there thy gold - hoard is , there is thine heart , where thy treasure is , there is thy heart . In modern ...
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... passage , ' If his son ask bread , will he give him a stone ? ' he says the words are unintelligible , unless we take ask in the sense of shall ask . I believe that to say ' If his son shall ask ' is not so idiomatic as ' If his son ...
... passage , ' If his son ask bread , will he give him a stone ? ' he says the words are unintelligible , unless we take ask in the sense of shall ask . I believe that to say ' If his son shall ask ' is not so idiomatic as ' If his son ...
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Accessory Clause adjective Adjective-clause Adverbial phrase Analysis Anglo-Saxon auxiliary called Chaucer co-ordinate sentences commonly COMPOUND SENTENCES connection consider construction copula dative definite article denoting derived distinction employed English Grammar English Language example express gender genitive German Gerund grammarians Greek Hence Horne Tooke idiom imperative imperative mood indefinite INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood instances interrogative intransitive introduced John Stoddart Julius Cæsar Latin Latin language Lowth Mason meaning modern English neuter nominative noun Noun-clause observe older English omitted passage passive past tense perfect participle person plural Predicate-nominative prefix Present Tense Principal Clause qualifying the Objective qualifying the Predicate qualifying the Predicate-verb qualifying the Subject-nomi relative adverbs relative pronoun remarks rule Second Co-ordinate secondary objective sense signifies singular sometimes speak stand Subject-nominative subjunctive subjunctive mood tence term termination thee thing thou tion tive transitive verb Verbs ending word write
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Page 225 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 123 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
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Page vi - For, sir, It is as sure as you are Roderigo, Were I the Moor, I would not be lago: In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end...
Page 229 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Page 214 - Good name, in man, and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he, that niches from me my good name, Robs me of that, which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 214 - How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray.
Page vi - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
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Page 264 - ... the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?