Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selection from the Best English and American Authors, Designed as Exercises in Parsing, for the Use of Common Schools and Academies, by Truman Rickard and Hiram OrcuttR.S. Davis & Company, 1863 - 139 páginas |
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... land . " " Night is the time for rest . " " The mountains bend o'er thee . " " He sailed between the islands . " In these examples , the adjuncts land , rest , thee , and islands , are connected with the modified words by the exponents ...
... land . " " Night is the time for rest . " " The mountains bend o'er thee . " " He sailed between the islands . " In these examples , the adjuncts land , rest , thee , and islands , are connected with the modified words by the exponents ...
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... land . " A VOLATIVE SENTENCE expresses an act of the will ; as , " Charge , Chester , charge . " Come on the light - winged gale . " " Go where glory waits thee . " A DECLARATIVE SENTENCE is used to declare or make known something ; as ...
... land . " A VOLATIVE SENTENCE expresses an act of the will ; as , " Charge , Chester , charge . " Come on the light - winged gale . " " Go where glory waits thee . " A DECLARATIVE SENTENCE is used to declare or make known something ; as ...
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... land of strangers , with his thousands around him ? The sunbeam pours its bright stream before him ; his hair meets the wind of his hills . Greatness may build a tomb , but goodness alone deserves an epitaph . Thought and language act ...
... land of strangers , with his thousands around him ? The sunbeam pours its bright stream before him ; his hair meets the wind of his hills . Greatness may build a tomb , but goodness alone deserves an epitaph . Thought and language act ...
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... land , Thou callest its children a happy band ; Mother ! oh , where is that radiant shore ? Shall we not seek it , and weep no more ? If thou wouldst know what thou art , ascertain what thou canst do . He will be immortal who liveth ...
... land , Thou callest its children a happy band ; Mother ! oh , where is that radiant shore ? Shall we not seek it , and weep no more ? If thou wouldst know what thou art , ascertain what thou canst do . He will be immortal who liveth ...
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... land , and went down , like a lonely bark foundering amid darkness and tempest , without a pitying eye to weep his fall , or a friendly hand to record his struggle . We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood ; we can- not recall ...
... land , and went down , like a lonely bark foundering amid darkness and tempest , without a pitying eye to weep his fall , or a friendly hand to record his struggle . We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood ; we can- not recall ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective of quality adverb Attica beauty behold bliss breath bright clouds common noun compound conjunction containing the grammatical containing the simple contemn copula cottage dark declarative deep definite article delightful denotes dependent clause direct object distinct earth eternal EXERCISE exponent exponential adjunct expressing the relation fall finite verb flowers gentle glory grammatical subject grave happy heart heaven hills human imperfect tense indicative mood infinite intellective interrogative light living logical and grammatical logical predicate logical subject masculine gender mighty mind modified word morning mountains nature neuter gender night nude adjunct o'er Obidah offices and relations Participle past plural number positive sentence Poss preposition pronoun repose rest river RULE simple grammatical predicate singular number song soul sound spirit stars sublime subordinate clause substantive sweet Syntax thee things third person thou art thought throne transitive verb virtue voice waves winds
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Página 47 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 46 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 139 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Página 140 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 139 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Página 46 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Página 140 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Página 117 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 139 - 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.
Página 141 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged...