Judge not, that ye be not judged. Be silent, that you may hear. Awake your senses, that you may the better judge. Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. Except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish. Though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Before the bright sun rises over the hill Life has passed With me but roughly since I saw thee last. Could you make it whole by crying Till your eyes and nose are red? Daily near my table steal While I pick my scanty meal. There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, As a man lives, so must he die. As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, Had she lived a twelvemonth more, The teardrop who can blame, One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Next morning as I passed, Shut your eyes, for now the day Could I but see a traitor, How bravely I should fight. So faint I am, these tottering feet No more my palsied frame can bear. In the blue air no smoky cloud Hung over wood and lea, When the old church with the fretted tower Had a hamlet round its knee. As through the drifting snow she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. We walked along, while bright and red She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight. 518. Examine a Subordinate Clause well before making up your mind what to call it. The same Clause may do different work in different sentences; thus: I know when he arrived. I know the hour when he arrived. I was out when he arrived. "When he arrived" is in the first sentence Object to know, and therefore a Noun Clause; in the second sentence it modifies the Noun hour, and is therefore an Adjective Clause; in the third sentence it modifies the Verb was, and is therefore an Adverbial Clause. Exercise 224. Say of what kind each Subordinate Clause is. Do you know where he lives? I live where he lives. I live in the village where he lives. I cannot tell how he can write. He writes how he can. As the bell tinkleth so the fool thinketh. I reached the door as the bells were ringing. sleep. As the bells were ringing, the children could not I bless the day when I first saw you. I remember when I first saw you. My sister was abroad when I first saw you. I see whom you are expecting. I see the person whom you are expecting. We asked whence he came. Oxford is the city whence he came. He must return whence he came. This is the hour when all are asleep. The thief comes when all are asleep. Do you know when all are asleep? I know where roses grow. This is the garden where roses grow. Bees hum where roses grow. CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENTS. 519. We are able now to complete the classification of elements begun in par. 456. I. Word elements may be (a) the Subject, (b) the Object, (c) the Attribute, (d) the Verb (always regarded as a word element), (e) an Adjective modifier, including Adjectives, Participles, Nouns or Pronouns in Apposition, Nouns or Pronouns in the Possessive Case, (f) an Adverbial modifier, (g) a Connective element (Conjunctions), (h) an Independent element (as Interjections). II Phrase elements may be (a) Subject (an Infinitive), (b) Object (an Infinitive), (c) Attribute (an Infinitive or a Prepositional Phrase), (d) an Adjective modifier ) (An Infinitive or a Prepo(e) an Adverbial modifier III. Clause elements may be (a) Subject, (b) Object, (c) Attribute, sitional Phrase). (d) Adjective modifier, being either a Relative Clause, a Clause introduced by a Conjunctive Adverb, or a Clause in Apposition, (e) Adverbial modifier (introduced by a Conjunctive Adverb or by a Subordinating Conjunction), (f) Object of a Preposition. 520. From an examination of the above table, it is seen that the Subject, the Object, the Attribute, an Adjective modifier, and an Adverbial modifier may each be either a word element, a phrase element, or a clause element. Exercise 225. Bring in original sentences illustrating each of the kinds of elements mentioned in the table in par. 519. Miscellaneous Complex Sentences for Analysis, The fattest ox the first must bleed. He that loseth his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. My advice is that you endeavor to be honestly rich or contentedly poor. The most convenient habit you can acquire is that of letting your habits sit loose upon you. Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own. He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. The vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise. Trifles discover the character more than actions of importance. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. This is the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be. Though good things answer many good intents, When the infant begins to walk, it thinks it lives in strange times. This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes. The men Whom nature's work can charm, with God himself Hold converse. It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. It was the winter wild When the heaven-born Child All meanly wrapp'd in the rude manger lies. I knew 'twas I, for many do call me fool. The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, Soon as the evening shades prevail Lowliness is young ambition's ladder To me the meanest flower that blows can give Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour. The boy stood on the burning deck A time there was, ere England's griefs began, That which is a competency for one man is not enough for another. They that govern most make least noise. He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapped in clouds and snow. Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time. |