The Structure of the English SentenceAmerican book Company, 1900 - Всего страниц: 244 |
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absolute phrase adverb adverbial clause American Book Company Analyze the following anticipative subject Bagehot base-word Bolles Boyesen Burroughs called Carlyle CHAPTER Cincinnati Chicago clause modifies clause of degree clause of manner complex-compound sentence compound sentence connective construction coördinating dependent proposition Dickens direct object ellipsis Emerson English equivalent example Exercise expression following sentences frequently Froude George Eliot gerund grammar group of words heart hence Higginson Holmes Howells idea independent element infinitive phrase Introductory Word Irving J. F. Clarke J. L. Allen ject jective Kipling Lewis Carroll Longfellow Lord Lowell Macaulay meaning mind Motley nature never noun clause omitted participial phrase participle prepositional phrase principal proposition Quincey relation relative pronoun restrictive adjective clause Ruskin Schools sentences containing sometimes Stevenson subjective complement subordinating conjunction substantive supply tell temporal clause tence Thackeray thing thought tion transitive verb usually Webster York American
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Стр. 211 - 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.
Стр. 233 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Стр. 234 - ... stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground ; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news...
Стр. 237 - It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook, In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Стр. 236 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
Стр. 10 - Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle personages of the village...
Стр. 96 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Стр. 230 - He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between the shoulders.
Стр. 27 - Thou say'st, thou art not Rustum; be it so! Who art thou then, that canst so touch my soul ? Boy as I am, I have seen battles too — Have waded foremost in their bloody waves, And heard their hollow roar of dying men; But never was my heart thus touch'd before.
Стр. 157 - His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew.