English grammar, by L. Direy and A. Foggo1858 |
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abbreviative accessory accusative active verb Addison adjective articles adverbs affixion agent anapest attribute Blair cadence close an iambic common nouns compound past conditional mood conjugation conjunction consonant designates discourse Dodsley dubitative ellipsis elliptic construction english verse expresses an act fancy gender Goldsmith grammar greek language heard others praise helmet of Navarre heptameter hexameter Hume iambic line IAMBIC TRIMETER iambus idea imperative indefinite article indefinite pronoun infinitive interjection interrogative language licence means metre Middleton Milton mind neuter verb nominative o'er object and act Old Testament patient being essentially penult plural poems poetry Pope preposition presents the act proper noun proposition relation relative pronoun rhyme rhythm second line second participle sentence Shakspeare singular sometimes SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH Spectator stanzas Sterne superlative syntax talked tenses TETRAMETER thee things third foot third person thou tive TRIMETER understood uniform metre vowel Washington Irving Webster wholly in camps word accented writing
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Seite 123 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings...
Seite 122 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Seite 125 - Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Seite 75 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Seite 123 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Seite 104 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Seite 120 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet...
Seite 124 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Seite 93 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 117 - But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.