An Improved Grammar of the English LanguageSidney Babcock, 1839 - Всего страниц: 192 |
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accent adjective admit adverbs affirmation agreeing Amphibrach attribute authors auxiliary called clause common compound conjunction connective considered construction definitive denoting distinct ellipsis English English language examples express fact future tense gender Grammar hath Hence idea idiom imperative mode indefinite indicative mode infinitive mode inflections intransitive irregular verb John language Latin letters Lord loved Thou loved Ye Lowth manner modifier n be loved n been loving nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original participle passages passive form past tense pause Perfect Tense personal pronoun phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefix preposition present tense principles Prior-Future Prior-Past represents Rhet RULE Saxon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sometimes sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables Tacitus tence termination thine things third person Thou shalt tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
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Стр. 87 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Стр. 154 - is toil and trouble; Honor, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying: If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying; Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee.
Стр. 155 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Стр. 76 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not : eyes have they, but they see not...
Стр. 147 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Стр. 154 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Стр. 156 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Стр. 24 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Стр. 142 - 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.
Стр. 86 - To reform and not to chastise I am afraid is impossible, and that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows.