Exercises in Grammatical AnalysisClaredon Press, 1868 - 224 pages |
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... may speak . ' In Latin the latter is always the construction . There- that you and I attend , ' would be correct . fore ' Let Permit } TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS . Il TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE . 10 PASSIVE VERBS .
... may speak . ' In Latin the latter is always the construction . There- that you and I attend , ' would be correct . fore ' Let Permit } TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS . Il TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE . 10 PASSIVE VERBS .
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... Latin use of ' habeo ' in phrases like ' habeo cognitum . ' At first only tran- sitive verbs could form their perf . and pluperf . in this way ; the past part . qualified the object and was in agreement with it . The Romanic languages ...
... Latin use of ' habeo ' in phrases like ' habeo cognitum . ' At first only tran- sitive verbs could form their perf . and pluperf . in this way ; the past part . qualified the object and was in agreement with it . The Romanic languages ...
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... Latin ' homo , ' ' a man , ' and the French ' on , ' and is an entirely different word from the adjective numeral ' one , ' which is the Latin word ' unus ; ' ' No one went is ' nemo , ' ' ne homo ; ' ' Not one man went ' is ' ne unus ...
... Latin ' homo , ' ' a man , ' and the French ' on , ' and is an entirely different word from the adjective numeral ' one , ' which is the Latin word ' unus ; ' ' No one went is ' nemo , ' ' ne homo ; ' ' Not one man went ' is ' ne unus ...
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... Latin form or ending in y may be used as an adverb , with this restriction , that it must not be an addition of new sense to the verb , but must merely qualify the essential meaning of the verb . For example , speed or non - speed is ...
... Latin form or ending in y may be used as an adverb , with this restriction , that it must not be an addition of new sense to the verb , but must merely qualify the essential meaning of the verb . For example , speed or non - speed is ...
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... Latin com- pound- Peradventure it was an oversight . ' Perhaps ' is formed from it , with the Latin preposition ' per , ' and the English ' hap , ' instead of ' adventure'— Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart . Haply some ...
... Latin com- pound- Peradventure it was an oversight . ' Perhaps ' is formed from it , with the Latin preposition ' per , ' and the English ' hap , ' instead of ' adventure'— Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart . Haply some ...
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Popular passages
Page 102 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 219 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 124 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 124 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 218 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 114 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 113 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 114 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Page 208 - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape grow Familiar to the stranger's child; As year by year the laborer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills.