A manual of the English languageCornish and Sons, 1888 - 89 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
3rd person adverb Analyse boast our light BROMLEY Classics Classify comparative suffix conjugation Conjunctions corruption dative DEFINITION denote derived dig dug diphthongs Discuss Distinguish double superlative durst English language etymology feminine Gallic War gender genitive suffix gerund GIBSON Give Grammar Grimm's Law heaved High Holborn indefinite indicative mood inflection Interjections Keltic Latin letter Literally translated LIVY Book LL.D London Matriculation meaning meant Mention methinks mode of man's modify the root-vowel Mongan OVID'S mood neuter suffix Object old A. S. Old High German origin Owgan Parse past tense Perf person or thing phrase plur plural form Post Free predicate Prefixes Preliminary Law Examination Prepositions Pres Price Pro Milone qualifying QUERNMORE reference Relative Pronoun Roscoe Mongan sentence sometimes sounds speaking speech syntax T. J. Arnold TACITUS Tell Teutonic language thou tion tive trans translated by T. J. various Verbs which modify vowel W. J. Hickie
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Página 70 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 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?
Página 71 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Página 80 - The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; • We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Página 75 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Página 67 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 58 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 78 - Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Página 54 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Página 78 - And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet 'By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
Página 51 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old ; His withered cheek and tresses gray Seemed to have known a better day. The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he Who sung of Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ! And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.