The principles of English grammar; or, No.viii of a new series of school-books |
Términos y frases comunes
accented Active Verb Adjective Adverb Amphibrach Antecedent Article Auxiliary better brother Cæsar called cause clause comma Conjunction consonant Defective Verbs denotes diligent duty ellipsis enemy English esteem EXERCISES expressed father fault feet FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gender give governed happy honour horse IMPERATIVE MOOD IMPERSONAL VERBS Indefinite Article INDICATIVE MOOD Infinitive Mood kind king labour lady language learned live Lord love &c love Plur loved PERFECT loved Plural loved Singular master Mayst Metamorpho Mightst mind Neuter Verb never Nominative Note 1.-The Noun Objective Participle PAST TENSE peace PERFECT TENSE person or thing pleasure PLUPERFECT TENSE Plural Number Possessive POTENTIAL MOOD praise preceded Preposition PRESENT TENSE Relative Pronouns riches RULE scholar sentence servant Shalt or wilt signifies Sing sometimes speak speech SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD syllable thee tive to-morrow Trochaic Trochee unaccented understood verse virtue vowel wisdom wise word
Pasajes populares
Página 46 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 49 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 49 - Why bade ye else, ye powers ! her soul aspire Above the vulgar flight of low desire? Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes ; The glorious fault of angels and of gods : Thence to their images on Earth it flows, And in the breasts of kings and heroes glows. Most souls, 'tis true, but peep out once an age, Dull sullen prisoners in the body's cage : Dim lights of life, that burn a length of years, Useless, unseen, as lamps in sepulchres ; Like eastern kings a lazy state they keep, And, close confin'd...
Página 48 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 61 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not...
Página 57 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 47 - The love he bore to learning was in fault : The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge...
Página 63 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman...
Página 67 - I CONSIDER a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties; until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it.
Página 21 - PERFECT TENSE. Singular. Plural. 1. I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been ; 3. They have been. PAST TENSE. 1. I was, 1. We were, 2. Thou wast, 2. You were, 3. He was; 3. They were. PAST PERFECT TENSE. 1. I had been, 1.