The Institutes of English GrammarW. Wood & Company, 1886 |
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according adjective adjective phrase adjuncts adverb agree anapestic antecedent apposition attribute auxiliary called classes comma complex conjunction connected consonant construction correct declarative sentence Defective Verbs denotes dependent clause diphthong ellipsis EXAMPLE ANALYZED exercise express False Syntax finite verb following sentences FORMULE.-Not proper gender governed grammarian happy honor imperative mood imperfect indicative mood infinitive mood inflections inserted Interjections interrogative language letters Lord loved mind modified neuter never nominative NOTE noun or pronoun object OBS.-The observations Parsing perfect participle Perfect Tense personal pronoun Pluperfect Tense plural number Poss POTENTIAL MOOD preceding predicate verb prefixed preperfect preposition Present Tense preterit pupil reading relation relative pronoun simple adjective simple adverbial phrase singular number sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive subjunctive mood subordinate rules syllable thee things third person thought tion triphthong truth understood uttered virtue vowel wise words write
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Seite 288 - At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.—Milton. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.—Shakspeare. Endless tears flow down in
Seite 284 - What prayer and supplication soever be made.—Bible. By the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you ward.—Id. III.—Figures of Syntax. ELLIPSIS. And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn, A [—] villager [—] abroad at early toil.—Beattie. The cottage curs at [—] early pilgrim bark.—Id. Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears,
Seite 274 - thus it Is nor otherwise can be So far from aught romantic what I sing Young Thyself first know then love a self there is Of virtue fond that kindles at her charms Id How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a
Seite 274 - You have too much respect upon the world They lose it that do buy it with much care Id How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection Id Canst thou descend from converse with the skies And seize thy brother's throat for what a clod Young
Seite 67 - neuter. In our translation of the Bible, the pronoun it is employed in the nominative and the objective, but his is retained in the possessive, neuter; as, "Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself
Seite 271 - I. Does nature bear a tyrant's breast Is she the friend of stern control Wears she the despot's purple vest Or fetters she the free-born soul Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Who art thou courteous stranger and from whence Why roam thy steps to this abandon'd dale
Seite 298 - Yet to the general's voice they soon obey'd Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung • Like night, and darken'd all the land of
Seite 286 - ix., 33. Thus Conscience pleads her cause within the breast, Though long-rebell'd against, not yet suppress'd.—Cowper. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.— Id. For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living strength, and unfrequented left
Seite 244 - Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,' " Who art thou ? " And he confessed, and denied not, but confessed, "I am not the Christ." And they asked him, "What then? Art thou Elias?" and he saith, "I am not." " Art thou that prophet ? " and he answered, " No.
Seite 247 - And waste its sweetness on the desert air.—Gray. Then kneeling down to heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays ;' Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days.—Burnt. He can't flatter, he ! An honest mind and plain ; he must speak truth; An k they will hear it, so; if not, he's