A Progressive Grammar of the English Tongue: Based on the Results of Modern PhilologyHarper & Bros., 1874 - 207 pages |
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75 cents adjective element adverb adverbial phrase Anglo-Saxon antecedent Anthon's apposition auxiliary brother Cæsar called clause Cloth comma Common Noun complement complete Complex Sentence composition compound sentence conjugation conjunction connected correct denote ellipsis English Grammar English language English Notes enlargement Example Exercise EXPLANATION.-Here EXPLANATION.-The express following Sentences Future Perfect gender Greek hence HENRY DRISLER ILLUSTRATIONS IMPERATIVE MOOD Incomplete verb INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive inflection Latin letter Loomis's loved means Name or write nominative NOTE.-The number and person object parsed Past Perfect Past Tense peculiar Perf person singular Personal Pronoun Plural Number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD PRACTICAL SYNTAX predicate preposition Present Perfect Present Tense PRINCIPAL PROPOSITIONS pupil Relative Adverbs relative pronoun river rule Saxon second person Sheep extra Simple sentence singular number sometimes speak speech statement Subjunctive Mood suffix superlative tence thing third person Thou tion transitive verb walk words
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Page 85 - 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 198 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war,— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 198 - 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.
Page 23 - The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 195 - His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low.
Page 197 - His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, ' Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire ; N lie asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall...
Page 103 - And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?
Page 194 - The village smithy stands ; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 195 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ) Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
Page 164 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth...