Exercises in Grammatical AnalysisClaredon Press, 1868 - 224 pages |
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Page 55
... readers of the present day , accustomed to skim newspapers and reviews , de- mand easy reading . Easy reading must ... reader , credit to the writer . Easy reading must therefore have short sentences . They must not pass on into ...
... readers of the present day , accustomed to skim newspapers and reviews , de- mand easy reading . Easy reading must ... reader , credit to the writer . Easy reading must therefore have short sentences . They must not pass on into ...
Page 56
... reader thinks , because he remembers perhaps the very words of some telling pieces , that he has received a more ... readers . So far of general principles , truth of subject , truth of writer , and genius of language . These are ...
... reader thinks , because he remembers perhaps the very words of some telling pieces , that he has received a more ... readers . So far of general principles , truth of subject , truth of writer , and genius of language . These are ...
Page 57
... reader need least of all set itself to lay hold of beautiful words in studying great writers . Moreover , the words belong to their own place , and , though of value , can seldom be transferred and made part of a learner's own stores ...
... reader need least of all set itself to lay hold of beautiful words in studying great writers . Moreover , the words belong to their own place , and , though of value , can seldom be transferred and made part of a learner's own stores ...
Page 58
... reader to give a real decision on the merits of different languages , instead of merely guessing at it , as many celebrated writers have done , in a ludicrous way , ac- cording to their prejudices . And , not least on the list , the ...
... reader to give a real decision on the merits of different languages , instead of merely guessing at it , as many celebrated writers have done , in a ludicrous way , ac- cording to their prejudices . And , not least on the list , the ...
Page 65
... reader be somewhat lost by doing so . A short summary of what has been stated amounts to this- That to learn to be a first - rate composer requires much reading and discrimination . But that every one does compose , and with a little ...
... reader be somewhat lost by doing so . A short summary of what has been stated amounts to this- That to learn to be a first - rate composer requires much reading and discrimination . But that every one does compose , and with a little ...
Common terms and phrases
Adjectival adjective adverb apace beautiful blow breath bulrushes clauses clear cloth College conjunctive mood creature cried the Frog curiosity doth Dragon-fly dry land English language English Notes Eton College EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE exclaimed the Frog expression eyes father fcap feel female FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS formerly Fellow French Grammar Greek hath hear heart hill INTRANSITIVE VERBS labour language Latin little fellow main idea mean mighty heart mind never night noun old English Oriel College Oxford P. G. TAIT participle pealed pluperfect tense plural poetry pond PREDICATE preposition Professor pronoun prose reader replied the Grub round seek sense sentence sight SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT Skiddaw soul speak speech sweet content tell tense thee thing thou thought told truth University of Oxford Uppingham School words writer young
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.