Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar. Improved, with an enlarged appendix ... by J. HarveySimpkin, Marshall and Company, 1841 - 125 pages |
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accent active verb Adjective pronouns adverbs Anapæst articulate sound auxiliary cheerful Comma Conjugate the following conjunction consists consonant couldst DEFECTIVE VERBS diphthong ending with silent English English language esteemed expresses feminine following verbs gender governed GRAMMAR hadst happy hath heart honour IMPERATIVE MOOD IMPERFECT TENSE improved INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood language letter live long syllable loved mayst or canst Metonomy mind neuter nominative nouns object ourselves Parsing passions passive passive voice peace perfect participle personal pronouns pleasure PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive POTENTIAL MOOD PREPOSITION PRESENT TENSE RULE VII Rules of Syntax SECOND FUTURE TENSE second person SECT SEMICOLON sentence shalt or wilt shouldst silent e singular number SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantives Synecdoche temper Thou art Thou hast Thou mayst Thou mightst thou shalt tive Trochaic Trochees verse virtue voice vowel wise words ending Write the following youth
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Page 97 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 96 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 95 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 97 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the...
Page 95 - All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas : And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise ? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others...
Page 68 - RULE v. .Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel : as wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; td begin, a beginner.
Page 96 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 96 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 63 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 95 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.