A Practical Grammar of the English LanguageJohn P. Morton & Company, 1846 - 254 pàgines Series title on front cover. |
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Pàgina 23
... nature of their sig- nification , have no plural . There are no such words as white- nesses , hastes , golds , honesties . But where nouns which are usually abstract or substantial are used as common , they may have the plural form ...
... nature of their sig- nification , have no plural . There are no such words as white- nesses , hastes , golds , honesties . But where nouns which are usually abstract or substantial are used as common , they may have the plural form ...
Pàgina 28
... nature , virtue , spring , peace , health , are feminine . 99 5. A collective noun , when used properly as such , that is , when it denotes a single collection of objects , or is in the plural number , is neuter ; as , " The army ...
... nature , virtue , spring , peace , health , are feminine . 99 5. A collective noun , when used properly as such , that is , when it denotes a single collection of objects , or is in the plural number , is neuter ; as , " The army ...
Pàgina 47
... nature of the pronoun may be understood by putting a noun in its place . Thus : " This is my book , but that is John's . " It would be as correct to say that John's , in this sentence , stands for both John's and book , as to say that ...
... nature of the pronoun may be understood by putting a noun in its place . Thus : " This is my book , but that is John's . " It would be as correct to say that John's , in this sentence , stands for both John's and book , as to say that ...
Pàgina 49
... nature of these words . The relative not only stands in the place of the noun , but closely connects the clause in which it stands to the antecedent . In this ex- ample , " The boy who studies will learn , " the relative clause , who ...
... nature of these words . The relative not only stands in the place of the noun , but closely connects the clause in which it stands to the antecedent . In this ex- ample , " The boy who studies will learn , " the relative clause , who ...
Pàgina 51
... nature of the relative what . It is said to be a compound relative pronoun , including both the antecedent and the relative , and equivalent to that which or the thing which . Though this may seem plausible , yet we shall find , on ...
... nature of the relative what . It is said to be a compound relative pronoun , including both the antecedent and the relative , and equivalent to that which or the thing which . Though this may seem plausible , yet we shall find , on ...
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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 equivalent expressed feet feminine finite verb flowers following sentences FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gender George grammatical predicate grammatical subject happy heaven horse imperative mood imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood interjections interrogative intransitive king language limiting adjective live loved masculine meaning modified noun or pronoun number and person o'er object participial noun passive participle passive voice PAST PERFECT past tense pause person singular plural possessive POTENTIAL MOOD preceding predicate nominative preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE principle proper refer relative pronoun Remark Rule xii singular number sound subjunctive subjunctive mood superlative sweet syllable Tell thee thing third person tive transitive verb virtue vowel wish words write written
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Pàgina 248 - 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.
Pàgina 252 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Pàgina 195 - Is it far away, in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold, Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand? Is it there, sweet mother! that better land? Not there, not there, my child ! Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy!
Pàgina 198 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Pàgina 229 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Pàgina 171 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree...
Pàgina 187 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Pàgina 235 - 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.
Pàgina 248 - The world is full of poetry — the air Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies, And sparkle in its brightness. Earth is veiled, And mantled with its beauty; and the walls That close the universe with crystal in, Are eloquent with voices, that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies, too perfect, and too high, For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal hymn, Unfading beauty, and unyielding power.
Pàgina 228 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.