A compendious grammar and philological hand-book of the English languageGriffith & Farran, 1871 - 202 pages |
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Page 124
... marked thus ( ... ) ; as , aërial , not arial . Prosthesis . Synæresis . Syncope . Tmesis . Figures of syntax . Anacolu- thon . Ellipsis . Prosthesis ( a placing to , Gr . ) is the prefixing of an additional syllable to a word ; as ...
... marked thus ( ... ) ; as , aërial , not arial . Prosthesis . Synæresis . Syncope . Tmesis . Figures of syntax . Anacolu- thon . Ellipsis . Prosthesis ( a placing to , Gr . ) is the prefixing of an additional syllable to a word ; as ...
Page 129
... marked thus ( · ) ; as , aërial , not œrial . Prosthesis ( a placing to , Gr . ) is the prefixing of an additional syllable to a word ; as , adown for down ; yclad for clad . Synæresis ( a taking together , Gr . ) is the taking of two ...
... marked thus ( · ) ; as , aërial , not œrial . Prosthesis ( a placing to , Gr . ) is the prefixing of an additional syllable to a word ; as , adown for down ; yclad for clad . Synæresis ( a taking together , Gr . ) is the taking of two ...
Page 146
... marked ( , ) . The Semicolon ( half a limb , Lat . , Greek ) is the next greater stop after the comma , and is marked ( ; ) . The Colon ( a limb , Greek ) is twice as great a pause as the semicolon , and is written ( :) . The Full Stop ...
... marked ( , ) . The Semicolon ( half a limb , Lat . , Greek ) is the next greater stop after the comma , and is marked ( ; ) . The Colon ( a limb , Greek ) is twice as great a pause as the semicolon , and is written ( :) . The Full Stop ...
Page 172
... marked in every case . Adjectives had genders and cases like the nouns . The infinitives of verbs ended in -an or -en , and the past participle in -en . They also had gerunds ; and their participles -ende and -ande were declined like ...
... marked in every case . Adjectives had genders and cases like the nouns . The infinitives of verbs ended in -an or -en , and the past participle in -en . They also had gerunds ; and their participles -ende and -ande were declined like ...
Page 173
... marked , and most of the cases disappeared , their place being supplied by prepositions and the objective case . Many of the plural termi- nations were dropped . The preposition to was used with the infini- tive in en and the gerundial ...
... marked , and most of the cases disappeared , their place being supplied by prepositions and the objective case . Many of the plural termi- nations were dropped . The preposition to was used with the infini- tive in en and the gerundial ...
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2nd Thou accent action adjectives adverbs ancient Anglo Anglo-Saxon auxiliary verbs born Cæsura called Catachresis changed cloth collective noun coloured compound conjugation conjunctions consonant copula Denoting derived diphthong DRYDEN Edition English Examples express Fcap feminine FIGURES OF ETYMOLOGY Figures of rhetoric Figures of syntax forming their plural French genitive gilt edges grammatical Greek History Iambic Illustrations Indefinite infinitive mood Inflections Interrogative Italian JOHN Julius Cæsar Keltic king language Latin letters Macbeth Masc masculine meaning Merchant of Venice MILTON neuter gender nominative noun or pronoun object origin past participle past tense Past-absolute Past-imperfect phrases plain Plur plural number poems POPE possessive Post 8vo predicate prefix prepositions present Present-perfect Prosody rule Saxon sentence shines Sing sound speech Subjunctive mood Super-royal 16mo superlative syllable termination tion tive Tmesis transitive verb trochees verse vowel walked 2nd walked 3rd walked Plural Words ending WORDSWORTH writing wrote
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Page 139 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 144 - NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room, And Hermits are contented with their cells, And Students with their pensive citadels : Maids at the wheel, the Weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy ; Bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells...
Page 129 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 140 - Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at each change the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is DRYDEN now.
Page 63 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Page 143 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 139 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense...
Page 136 - Tho' oft the ear the open vowels tire ; While expletives their feeble aid do join ; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find ' the cooling western breeze...
Page 56 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love...
Page 132 - They summ'd their pens, and soaring the air sublime With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect : there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...