An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language, Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises, and a Key to the Exercises, 1. köideT. Wilson, 1808 |
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accent according to RULE action active verb adjective pronoun admit adverbs appears applied auxiliary verbs better c¿sura comma common substantive compound conjugated conjunction connected connexion consonant construction definite denote derived diphthong distinct distinguished ellipsis emphasis English language examples following sentence frequently genitive governed grammar grammarians happy imperative mood IMPERFECT TENSE implies indefinite indicative mood infinitive mood interrogative irregular verb king Latin latter learner Lord loved manner means names nature nominative noun objective observations participle passive past pause peculiar perfect personal pronoun phrases PLUPERFECT TENSE plural number possessive Potential Mood preceding preposition present tense principles proper properly propriety relative pronoun render respect SECOND FUTURE TENSE sense signifies singular number sometimes sound speak speech subjunctive mood superlative syllable Syntax termination thing third person singular thou tion tive tongue Trochee variation verb active verb neuter virtue voice vowel words wouldst writers
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Page 485 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 487 - 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 478 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.
Page 471 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 444 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 472 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable Shape. The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, * But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting.
Page 462 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 481 - Nor wanting is the brown October, drawn, Mature and perfect, from his dark retreat Of thirty years...
Page 298 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Page 477 - When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular...