Oral English ...Atkinson, Mentzer & Company, 1914 |
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adverbial clause adverbial phrase appositive beautiful bird boundless BROAD ANALYSIS brought him comfort Caesar called castle Change the italicized Cinderella clause modifier colossal wreck COMBINING SENTENCES connecting words court jester door expletive Fafner following sentences forest George Washington Give construction Grace Darling Hansel and Gretel heard horse infinitive italicized words Jack John jumping king LESSON X LESSON XVII LESSON XVIII lived in Greece lone and level looked Midas morning NAME THE PICTURE Nigel Bruce night object omitted once lived Ozymandias PARTIAL ANALYSIS participles pitcher predicate adjectives predicate noun preposition pupils Read the following Read the sentences relative clause relative pronoun Robin Hood round the decay sands stretch second sentence SENTENCE SYNTHESIS sentences by changing Sir Ector soldier sound stood story Study the following subject and verb Supply teacher tence Tense told tree walked window wood write
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Pàgina 121 - I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read...
Pàgina 117 - Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguiniry, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision.
Pàgina 118 - Although in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short, and embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style. This he had acquired by conversation with the world, for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithmetic,...
Pàgina 101 - But my father in the meantime, from a view of the expense of a college education, which having so large a family he could not well afford, and the mean living many so educated were afterwards able to obtain — reasons that he gave to his friends in my hearing, — altered his first intention, took me from the grammar-school, and sent me to a school for writing and arithmetic, kept by a then famous man, Mr.
Pàgina 137 - ROBERT of Sicily, brother of Pope Urbane And Valmond, Emperor of Allemaine, Apparelled in magnificent attire, With retinue of many a knight and squire, On St. John's eve, at vespers, proudly sat And heard the priests chant the Magnificat.
Pàgina 85 - Meanwhile, the vessels had dropped downward with the current, and anchored opposite the landing-place. The remaining troops were disembarked, and, with the dawn of day, the whole were brought in safety to the shore. The sun rose, and, from the ramparts of Quebec, the astonished people saw the Plains of Abraham glittering with arms, and the dark-red lines of the English forming in array of battle.
Pàgina 136 - The great bugaboo of the birds is the owl. The owl snatches them from off their roosts at night, and gobbles up their eggs and young in their nests. He is a veritable ogre to them, and his presence fills them with consternation and alarm. One season, to protect my early cherries, I placed a large stuffed owl amid the branches of the tree. Such a racket as there instantly began about my grounds is not pleasant to think upon ! The orioles and robins fairly "shrieked out their affright.
Pàgina 89 - An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable,) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course ; the wheels remained motionless with surprise ; the weights hung speechless; each member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. At length the...
Pàgina 121 - Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Pàgina 109 - ... became subject to epileptic fits. He was a great bather, and scrupulously clean in all his habits ; abstemious in his food, and careless in what it consisted ; rarely or never touching wine, and noting sobriety as the highest of qualities, when describing any new people. He was an athlete in early life, admirable in all manly exercises, and especially in riding. In Gaul...