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Abbey accordance action Adjectives adverb assertion assumes beauty become beginning better called century character combined common compared comparison Compound conjunctions denoting designating distinctive distinguished dream ending England English examples expressed famous fear feel following sentences force formation frequently future gender give grave hand heart hour indicative INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive irregular kind king language learned less light limits live meaning Milton mind Mood nature never nominative noun object once origin participle pass past Perfect Tense person plural Point Poss possessive potential preceded preposition present principal pronoun proper pure regard regular relation relative rhetorical Roman rule seems seen simple Singular smite smitten sometimes sound speech style sweet takes termed thee things thou thought tion transitive truth usage verb voice vowel word
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Página 126 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Página 137 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Página 134 - Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day...
Página 128 - Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, — where art thou gone ? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate...
Página 135 - These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Página 129 - Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard — I saw them not — When musing deeply on the lot Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing All vital things that wake to bring News of birds and blossoming, — Sudden, thy shadow fell on me; I shrieked, and clasped my hands in ecstasy!
Página 121 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 135 - That every labouring sinew strains, Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo ! Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th
Página 136 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak : The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Página 128 - THE awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us, — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower, — Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, — Like clouds in starlight widely spread, — Like memory of music fled, — 10 Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | A Grammar of the English Language Language series, Mary Frances Hyde |
| Autor | Henry Elliot Shepherd |
| Editor | J.B. Piet & Company, 1883 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 20 Mar 2007 |
| Largo | 144 páginas |
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