Exercises in Grammatical AnalysisClaredon Press, 1868 - 224 páginas |
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Página 44
... short definition will not be out of place here . The main distinction between prose and poetry is that the business of prose is to impart fresh knowledge , of poetry to illuminate , to kindle , to suggest , and to touch the heart and ...
... short definition will not be out of place here . The main distinction between prose and poetry is that the business of prose is to impart fresh knowledge , of poetry to illuminate , to kindle , to suggest , and to touch the heart and ...
Página 55
... short sentences . They must not pass on into complex constructions . There must be no attempt to represent graduation of idea . A new sentence must be made for every part of an idea , as well as for the main idea itself . The sentence ...
... short sentences . They must not pass on into complex constructions . There must be no attempt to represent graduation of idea . A new sentence must be made for every part of an idea , as well as for the main idea itself . The sentence ...
Página 56
... short sentences in which all the ideas take equal rank , the want of connexion , the monotony of a series of little strokes , becomes very wearisome ; when each little stroke ought to be remembered in its own order , and there is no ...
... short sentences in which all the ideas take equal rank , the want of connexion , the monotony of a series of little strokes , becomes very wearisome ; when each little stroke ought to be remembered in its own order , and there is no ...
Página 62
... short I cut which saves time and labour . Mere rote - work , and the speech of the uneducated man is this , is soon at fault , where a little knowledge makes a man at ease . Any one who talks is perpetually composing sentences . To ...
... short I cut which saves time and labour . Mere rote - work , and the speech of the uneducated man is this , is soon at fault , where a little knowledge makes a man at ease . Any one who talks is perpetually composing sentences . To ...
Página 64
... Short sentences there- fore are clear and emphatic , fitted to make an impression in parts , and admirably adapted for lectures or lecture - writing , and also for an occasional concentration of the mind on striking and telling ...
... Short sentences there- fore are clear and emphatic , fitted to make an impression in parts , and admirably adapted for lectures or lecture - writing , and also for an occasional concentration of the mind on striking and telling ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adjectival adjective adverb apace beautiful blow breath bulrushes clauses clear cloth College conjunctive mood creature cried the Frog curiosity doth Dragon-fly dry land English language English Notes Eton College EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE exclaimed the Frog expression eyes father fcap feel female FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS formerly Fellow French Grammar Greek hath hear heart hill INTRANSITIVE VERBS labour language Latin little fellow main idea mean mighty heart mind never night noun old English Oriel College Oxford P. G. TAIT participle pealed pluperfect tense plural poetry pond PREDICATE preposition Professor pronoun prose reader replied the Grub round seek sense sentence sight SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT Skiddaw soul speak speech sweet content tell tense thee thing thou thought told truth University of Oxford Uppingham School words writer young
Pasajes populares
Página 102 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 219 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Página 124 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 124 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 218 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Página 114 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Página 113 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Página 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Página 114 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Página 208 - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape grow Familiar to the stranger's child; As year by year the laborer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills.