A Practical Grammar of the English LanguageJohn P. Morton & Company, 1846 - 254 Seiten Series title on front cover. |
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accented action active voice adjuncts anapestic antecedent apple apposition auxiliary perfect participle beautiful belongs Cæsar called comma common noun compound connected consonant correct defective verb denote dependent clause English expressed feet feminine finite verb flowers following sentences Future Perfect FUTURE PERFECT TENSE George Goodrich's grammatical predicate grammatical subject happy heaven horse imperative mood imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood interjections interrogative intransitive language letter limiting adjective live loved masculine meaning modified noun or pronoun number and person o'er object participial noun passive participle passive voice Past Perfect past tense pause person singular plural possessive potential mood preceding predicate nominative preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE proper refer relative clause relative pronoun Remark Rule xii singular number sound subjunctive mood superlative sweet syllable Tell thee thing third person tive transitive verb trochee virtue vowel wish words write written
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Seite 198 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Seite 245 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Seite 234 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Seite 195 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Seite 252 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Seite 254 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Seite 219 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay ; And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Seite 195 - That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Seite 230 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Seite 250 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.