A System of English GrammarOliver & Boyd, 1845 - 168 páginas |
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... Past : the Future is not expressed by any inflection of the verb in English , as it is in Latin , French , and other languages , but by the help of another verb ; and it is surely absurd to force a dis- tinction upon the English verb ...
... Past : the Future is not expressed by any inflection of the verb in English , as it is in Latin , French , and other languages , but by the help of another verb ; and it is surely absurd to force a dis- tinction upon the English verb ...
Página 66
... past time , but it does not . In both cases it indicates an action going on at the time specified by the verb with which it is connected . In the case of the other participle , the name past is not so obviously inappropriate , but it is ...
... past time , but it does not . In both cases it indicates an action going on at the time specified by the verb with which it is connected . In the case of the other participle , the name past is not so obviously inappropriate , but it is ...
Página 67
... past tenses and the perfect participle . 149. The past tense and perfect participle are formed from the present tense by adding ed , if it end in a consonant , as rain , rained , and simply d if it end in the vowel e , as change ...
... past tenses and the perfect participle . 149. The past tense and perfect participle are formed from the present tense by adding ed , if it end in a consonant , as rain , rained , and simply d if it end in the vowel e , as change ...
Página 68
... Past . bent or bended bereft or bereaved besought bade or bid bound begun Perf . Part . beheld or beholden bent or bended bereft or bereaved besought bidden bound Bite Bleed bit bled bitten or bit bled Bless blessed blessed or blest ...
... Past . bent or bended bereft or bereaved besought bade or bid bound begun Perf . Part . beheld or beholden bent or bended bereft or bereaved besought bidden bound Bite Bleed bit bled bitten or bit bled Bless blessed blessed or blest ...
Página 69
Charles Walker Connon. Present . Past . Freeze Get got or gat Gild gilt or gilded Gird girt or girded Give gave Go went froze frozen Perf . Part . gotten or got girt or girded ... Past . Rive rived Rot rotted Run Saw INFLECTION OF VERBS . 69.
Charles Walker Connon. Present . Past . Freeze Get got or gat Gild gilt or gilded Gird girt or girded Give gave Go went froze frozen Perf . Part . gotten or got girt or girded ... Past . Rive rived Rot rotted Run Saw INFLECTION OF VERBS . 69.
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Página 94 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in His presence, ever to observe His providence, and on Him sole depend...
Página 83 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Página 84 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 149 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 98 - 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, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 166 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms...
Página 165 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Página 167 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Página 168 - Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy, Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy ; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, Sorrow and death may not enter there ; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom ; For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there ; it is there, my child.
Página 165 - 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.