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7. Parse the following sentence as fully as you can:—
'When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare,
One evening I wandered forth,
Along the banks of Ayr.'

8. Parse the following sentence :—

'The eagle, called the king of birds,
Soars high with crooked beak;

The starling may be taught some words,
The jet-black crow is meek.'

9. Parse the following sentence as fully as you are able :'After these Indians had gazed at us for some time, one of them suddenly jumped out of his boat, swam to the ship, and ran up the side like a cat.'

10. Parse the following sentence:-A family of Indians pitched their huts very near us; from one of the islands of our lake we could distinguish from our front windows the thin blue smoke of their wood fires.'

11. Parse the following sentence as fully as you are able :'Sweet was the sound when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.'

12. Parse the following verse as fully as you are able :-
'I sat upon a mountain,

From home far, far away;
Beneath the hills and valleys
And smiling corn-fields lay.'

13. Parse the following sentence:-Long, long ago, when animals could use their reason, the frogs met together to ask Jupiter for a king.'

14. Parse the following sentence:-'The air which surrounds us, and which is called the atmosphere, extends up from the surface of the earth above two hundred miles.'

15. Parse the following sentence: A merchant in Turkey lost a purse containing two hundred pieces of gold.'

16. Parse the following sentence:-'A man and his wife went out for a walk by the river.'

17. Parse the following sentence:-'The elm is a tree which often grows very large.'

18. Parse the following sentence :-'He upset the carriage by driving over a large stone.'

19. Parse the following sentence :-'Small grievances should be borne without much complaining.'

20. Parse the following sentence:-'The tracks of tigers are easily found, as they go every evening by the same path to the water.'

21. Point out the parts of speech in the following sentence: -The cat ran after the mouse, but it got away.'

22. Point out the parts of speech in the following sentence: —‘A straight line is the shortest distance between two points.'

23. Point out the parts of speech in the following lines; and, if you are able, parse the words in the two last of the lines:

'Rome, for empire far renowned,

Tramples on a thousand states;
Soon her pride shall kiss the ground:
Hark! the Goth is at her gates.'

24. Point out the parts of speech in the following lines; and, if you are able, parse the words :

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25. Point out the parts of speech in the two following lines; and, if you can, parse them fully:

'But I forgot when by thy side

That mortal thou could'st be.'

26. Point out the parts of speech in the two following lines; if you can, the second line :

and parse,

27.

'Sir Knight, I fear not the least alarm;
No son of Erim will offer me harm.'

"Thou art a most pernicious usurer,
And very infant's prattle of thy pride.'

Point out to what part of speech each word in the above two lines belongs, and parse each word as fully as you can.

28.

That day I oft remember, when from sleep

I first awaked, much wondering what I was.' Point out the parts of speech in the above lines; and, if you can, parse each word.

29. Point out the parts of speech in the following sentence, and parse the words, if you can:-' Much caution and artifice were necessary to deal with the crafty animal, which took care not to expose itself again before night set in.'

30. 'Bacon's fall restored him to that position of real greatness from which his ambition had so long torn him away.' Point out the parts of speech in the foregoing sentence; and, if you can, parse fully each word.

31. Parse the adjectives and verbs in the following:

'The damsel donned her kirtle sheen,
The hall was dressed with holly green,

Forth to the woods did the merry men go,
To gather in the mistletoe.'

32. Parse the verbs and adjectives in the following:

'Oh no, believe, in yonder tower,

It will not soothe my captive hour,

To know those spears our foes should dread
For me, in kindred gore, are red.'

SCOTT.

33. Parse fully the verbs and adjectives in the following:

'No longer Autumn's glowing red

Upon our forest hills is shed;
Away hath passed the heather bell
That bloomed so rich in Red-path-fell;
Sallow his brow and russet bare
Are now the sister heights of Yare.'

SCOTT.

34. Parse the nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the following

sentence:

'Oft hath it been my lot to mark

A proud, conceited, talking spark."

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35. Parse the verbs and adjectives in the following:'I remember, I remember

The fir trees dark and high;

I used to think their slender tops

Were close against the sky.'-HOOD.

36. (1) Point out and parse the verbs and adjectives:-
'Oh, many tears, ye brave and true,

Oh, many tears for you were shed,
Whose corpses by the waters blue
Lay piled-unhonoured dead!'

(2) Parse the verbs and adjectives in the following:-
'Come hither! come hither! my little daughter,
And do not tremble so;

For I can weather the roughest gale

That ever wind did blow.'-LONGFELLOW.

37. Parse the two following lines :

'Oh! breathe not his name, lest it rest in the shade, Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid.' 38. Parse the following lines :—

"To-night will be a stormy night:

You to the town must go;
And take a lantern, child, to light

Your mother through the snow.'

39. ParseEven as a boy at college Bacon had expressed his dislike to the Aristotelian philosophy.'

40 Parse fully the following lines :

'The deadliest snake, from which all creatures fly,
Dreaded the deadlier venom of her eye.'

41. Parse:

'The stag at eve had drunk his fill,

Where danced the moon on Monan's rill.'

SIR W. SCOTT, Lady of the Lake.

42. Parse the verbs and adjectives in the following:

O sweet is the new violet that comes beneath the skies,
And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise,
And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow,
And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go.'

43. Parse the nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the following :'The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way, Each purple peak, each flinty spire,

Was bathed in floods of living fire.'-SCOTT.

44. Point out and parse the verbs and adjectives in the following:

'Tis merry, 'tis merry, in Fairy-land,

When fairy birds are singing.'

45. Parse the verbs and adjectives in the following:'Heap on more wood, the wind is chill,

But, let it whistle as it will,

We'll keep our Christmas merry still.'

46. Point out and parse the verbs and adjectives in the following passage :

All the valley, mother, will be fresh and green and still;
And the cowslip and the crowfoot are over all the hill;
And the rivulet in the flowery dale will merrily dance and play.'

47. Parse as fully as you can the following sentence :-' Our performance must have given universal satisfaction, for the whole audience were enchanted with our powers.'

48. Parse as fully as you can the following passage :'Soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony.

Sit, Jessica.'

49. Parse as fully as you can the following lines :—

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See the dewdrops how they kiss,
Every little flower that is,
Hanging on their velvet heads
Like a string of crystal beads.'
'Though till now ungraced in story,
Scant although thy waters be,
Alma, roll those waters proudly,

Proudly roll them to the sea.'

Parse fully the words which are in italics in the above lines.

51. Parse the following:

'Life is a sea where man is ever lost:

Now plunged in business, now in trifles lost:

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