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... action which passes over to an object ; as , He kicked me . An intransitive verb has no object ; as , He ran off . Verbs may be divided in many different ways according to the view we take of them : e . g . 1. - Transitive and ...
... action which passes over to an object ; as , He kicked me . An intransitive verb has no object ; as , He ran off . Verbs may be divided in many different ways according to the view we take of them : e . g . 1. - Transitive and ...
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... Words = Verbs . denoting actions . { Adverbe they are generally attendants on verbs . Relations Prepositions . between Conjunctions . things . INFLECTION OF THE NOUN . Nouns are inflected in number INFLECTION OF WORDS . 11.
... Words = Verbs . denoting actions . { Adverbe they are generally attendants on verbs . Relations Prepositions . between Conjunctions . things . INFLECTION OF THE NOUN . Nouns are inflected in number INFLECTION OF WORDS . 11.
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... action ; as , Mary ran away , and Tom followed her . The Objective case comes after a transitive verb , or a prepo- sition , and is the object of the action ; as , He kissed her under the mistletoe . There is no difference in form in ...
... action ; as , Mary ran away , and Tom followed her . The Objective case comes after a transitive verb , or a prepo- sition , and is the object of the action ; as , He kissed her under the mistletoe . There is no difference in form in ...
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... action ; as , I struck him . A verb is in the Passive Voice when the subject suffers the action ; as , I was struck by him . The Passive Voice is made up of some part of the verb to be , joined to the perfect participle of a transitive ...
... action ; as , I struck him . A verb is in the Passive Voice when the subject suffers the action ; as , I was struck by him . The Passive Voice is made up of some part of the verb to be , joined to the perfect participle of a transitive ...
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... action takes place ; as , I go , I went , I shaM go . There are three tenses , the Present the Past , and the Future ... actions , not existing in every verb , but certainly existing in some ; and , therefore , taking language as we find ...
... action takes place ; as , I go , I went , I shaM go . There are three tenses , the Present the Past , and the Future ... actions , not existing in every verb , but certainly existing in some ; and , therefore , taking language as we find ...
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Página 78 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Página 78 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 69 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 53 - Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...
Página 69 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Página 76 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Página 69 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 77 - Night, of clustering gems A star or two just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less...
Página 77 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Página 53 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.