A Common-school Grammar of the English LanguageIvison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Company, 1880 - 354 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 255 - What in me is dark, illumine; what is low, raise and support." " The character of General Washington, which his contemporaries reverence and admire, will be transmitted to posterity; and the memory of his virtues, while patriotism and virtue are held sacred among men, will remain undiminished.
الصفحة 148 - of elms was magnificent." 2. A term in apposition. Ex. — " Love, and love only, is the loan for love." W. The Bible, or Holy Scriptures, are the best book. 3. A predicate-nominative. Ex. — " / was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
الصفحة 246 - my lord; he has not failed. But the daughter — alas! poor creature — she is accomplished, and cannot do household work. Flag of the brave! thy folds shall fly The sign of hope and triumph high. — Drake. Ah! then how sweetly closed those boyhood days! The minutes parting one by one like rays.
الصفحة 220 - When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed." When first thy sire designed to send Virtue, his darling child, on earthIrregular Verbs, in the course of time, sometimes become regular; but regular verbs never become irregular, except that ed is sometimes changed to
الصفحة 81 - to peace." • Some put the bliss in action, some in ease: Those call it pleasure; and contentment, these." — Pope. " They deemed each other oracles of law." — Pope. " Husbands and wives are continually complaining of each other."— " Bear ye one another's burdens." — Bible. [Johnson. 205. ADJECTIVE
الصفحة 147 - Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever." — Webster. The pronoun they, in this last example, seems to afford, in regard to pronouns, an exception to the general principle ; but it is obvious that this apparent exception arises simply from a different view that is taken of the sense. 3. Plural Subject or Antecedent.
الصفحة 220 - Come, and trip it, as you go, on the light, fantastic toe." — Milton. It here vaguely denotes doing or action. Known. " Some men employ their time — an ugly
الصفحة 337 - than a beauty. 5. In Idioms. Poets sometimes use uncommon native idioms, and frequently borrow idioms from foreign languages. Ex. — " Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
الصفحة 274 - Inverted and Elliptical. 1. A joy thou art, and a wealth, to all. 2. We stand the latest, and, if we fall, the last, experiment of self-government. 3. The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell; His food the fruits,
الصفحة 322 - the use of more words than the sense or the syntax absolutely requires. " One of the few, the immortal names, that were not born to die." Either the same word is repeated, or an equivalent expression is used. 3. Enal'lage; the use of one part of speech, or of one form of a word, for another. " Thinks I to myself, I '11 stop.