A Practical Grammar of the English LanguageJohn P. Morton & Company, 1846 - 254 páginas Series title on front cover. |
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... seen imagine mote thereby That whylome of Hercules hath been told . " - Spenser . What relative is never used except when When the antecedent is expressed what Ahe antecedent is omitted ? relative is used instead of what ? " Eschewe ...
... seen imagine mote thereby That whylome of Hercules hath been told . " - Spenser . What relative is never used except when When the antecedent is expressed what Ahe antecedent is omitted ? relative is used instead of what ? " Eschewe ...
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... seen from such sentences as the follow- ing : " I love whoever loves me . " Here whoever is in the nominative case , and , of course , cannot be the object of the verb love . The object of that verb is omitted , because it is indefinite ...
... seen from such sentences as the follow- ing : " I love whoever loves me . " Here whoever is in the nominative case , and , of course , cannot be the object of the verb love . The object of that verb is omitted , because it is indefinite ...
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... seen him a moment ago . " Remarks . - 1 . This tense may be used when we speak of an author long since dead , when the works to which we refer are still in existence ; as , " Milton has written some noble works . " Here we refer not so ...
... seen him a moment ago . " Remarks . - 1 . This tense may be used when we speak of an author long since dead , when the works to which we refer are still in existence ; as , " Milton has written some noble works . " Here we refer not so ...
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... seen him . " 66 Note . In the second example , the future time to which shall have seen belongs , is not the same as that to which will go refers ; the meaning is , “ I will go before the time at which I shall have seen him ; ” at which ...
... seen him . " 66 Note . In the second example , the future time to which shall have seen belongs , is not the same as that to which will go refers ; the meaning is , “ I will go before the time at which I shall have seen him ; ” at which ...
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... seen many things in my life . Darius was de- feated by Alexander . The rain falls in torrents . The night is dark . The shoe will soon be mended , George will then go home . Amelia loves study . I had seen it before you saw it . My work ...
... seen many things in my life . Darius was de- feated by Alexander . The rain falls in torrents . The night is dark . The shoe will soon be mended , George will then go home . Amelia loves study . I had seen it before you saw it . My work ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accented action active voice adjuncts anapestic antecedent apple apposition auxiliary perfect participle beautiful belongs better 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 TENSE gender George Grammar grammatical predicate grammatical subject happy heaven horse imperative mood imperfect infinitive mood interjections interrogative intransitive language limiting adjective live loved masculine meaning modified noun or pronoun number and person o'er object PARSING EXERCISES participial noun passive participle passive voice PAST PERFECT past tense pause plural possessive potential mood preceding predicate nominative preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE principle proper refer relative clause relative pronoun Remark Rule xii simple singular number sound subjunctive subjunctive mood superlative sweet syllable Tell thee thing third person tive transitive verb trochee virtue vowel wish words write written
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Página 234 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power : In dreams, through camp and court he bore The trophies of a conqueror...
Página 236 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 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.
Página 196 - 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 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...
Página 194 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me. Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Página 196 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining! They stood aloof, the scars remaining; Like cliffs which had been rent asunder! A dreary sea now flows between ; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween! The marks of that which once hath been.
Página 252 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 237 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 197 - Not there ; not there, my child. Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy, Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy ; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, Sorrow and death may not enter there ; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom ; For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there ; it is there, my child.