School GrammarAmerican Book Company, 1907 - 317 Seiten |
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accented ACTIVE VOICE adjective modifiers adjective phrase ADJUNCT adverb adverbial clause adverbial modifier adverbial phrase amphibrach ANAPESTIC antecedent apposition auxiliary called classified comma composite word concord connected Correct the errors DACTYLIC declarative sentence DEFINITION denoting dialect elements English language EXERCISE express following sentences FUTURE PERFECT TENSE future tense gender give a reason grammar Greek HYPERMETER IAMBIC Incorrect independent clauses indicative mode infinitive inflections interrogative intransitive JECT kind Latin lines meaning is modified modify the meaning noun clause noun or pronoun object parsed passive voice past participle past tense PERFECT TENSE person or thing personal pronoun poetry possessive prefix preposition PRESENT TENSE principal clause relative pronoun rime rule seen Shakespeare Singular Plural speak spoke SUBJECT WORD subjunctive subjunctive mode subordinate clause subordinating conjunction suffix syllables syllables rime tell tence TENSE Singular thee Thou tion tive transitive verb TROCHAIC trochee walk write
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Seite 252 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Seite 119 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Seite 109 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Seite 141 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Seite 252 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Seite 213 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Seite 243 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Seite 97 - Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.
Seite 126 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Seite 138 - Weep no more, woeful Shepherds, weep no more ! For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...