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Alexander Bain. TABLE OF CONTENTS . xi 20. II . After an adverbial phrase or clause , 21. III . For special reasons ... phrases , 6. ADVERSATIVE conjunctions , 7. ILLATIVE conjunctions , ... ... 8. Words and phrases of reference , 9 ...
Alexander Bain. TABLE OF CONTENTS . xi 20. II . After an adverbial phrase or clause , 21. III . For special reasons ... phrases , 6. ADVERSATIVE conjunctions , 7. ILLATIVE conjunctions , ... ... 8. Words and phrases of reference , 9 ...
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... phrase , and clause ; and to make sure that the incidence is perfectly plain , or free from ambiguity . ( See Companion to the Higher English Grammar , p . 328. ) 3. The second rule for the placing of qualifying adjuncts is the rule of ...
... phrase , and clause ; and to make sure that the incidence is perfectly plain , or free from ambiguity . ( See Companion to the Higher English Grammar , p . 328. ) 3. The second rule for the placing of qualifying adjuncts is the rule of ...
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... phrase as it is in the less usual English order . This is a faithful saying , ' really gives the same meaning , and is felt to be more in harmony with the tone of the passages , which are without poetical or rhetorical colouring ...
... phrase as it is in the less usual English order . This is a faithful saying , ' really gives the same meaning , and is felt to be more in harmony with the tone of the passages , which are without poetical or rhetorical colouring ...
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... phrase , or clause . We very rarely begin with a verb alone . The instances in the COMPANION , p . 298 , are all from Scott . So are these : - Vanish'd the Saxon's struggling spear , Vanish'd the mountain sword . The drawbridge fell ...
... phrase , or clause . We very rarely begin with a verb alone . The instances in the COMPANION , p . 298 , are all from Scott . So are these : - Vanish'd the Saxon's struggling spear , Vanish'd the mountain sword . The drawbridge fell ...
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... phrase , huge in length , ' might go after the subject : - So stretched out , lay the archfiend , huge in length . So glozed the tempter . So work the honey bees . Wordsworth calls Grasmere- The loveliest spot that man hath ever found ...
... phrase , huge in length , ' might go after the subject : - So stretched out , lay the archfiend , huge in length . So glozed the tempter . So work the honey bees . Wordsworth calls Grasmere- The loveliest spot that man hath ever found ...
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Page 197 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 62 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 28 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten,...
Page 25 - For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
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Page 36 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Page 103 - He has commonly a broad full face, curiously mottled with red, as if the blood had been forced by hard feeding into every vessel of the skin ; he is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors, and his bulk is still further increased by a multiplicity of coats, in which he is buried like a cauliflower, the upper one reaching to his heels.
Page 27 - IT is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward.
Page 145 - They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 278 - Snatch'd through the verdant maze, the hurried eye Distracted wanders ; now the bowery walk Of covert close, where scarce a speck of day Falls on the lengthened gloom, protracted sweeps ; Now meets the bending sky ; the river now Dimpling along, the breezy ruffled lake, The forest darkening round, the glittering spire, The ethereal mountain, and the distant main.