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abbreviation according to Note according to Rule active voice Adjective Pronouns adjuncts adverb antecedent apposition auxiliary belongs called capital clause colon comma complex Conjugate conjunction connected consonant Correct the sentence dash denotes diphthongs ellipsis English Examples for Practice expressed father following sentences foregoing sentences gender Grammar Greek idea Imperative mood indefinitely INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood inserted interrogation point intransitive John language Latin letter loved marks of parenthesis masculine meaning Model for Parsing modified Monometer neuter nominative noun or pronoun object omitted participle passive voice Past Tense Personal Pronouns phrase Poss possessive Potential mood preceding predicate preposition Present Tense Price Prof Progressive form pron qualifies quotation Quote Note relative pronoun semicolon separated signifies sing singular number sometimes sound speech Subjunctive mood syllable Syntax tences thing third person thou tion tive transitive verb Trimeter triphthong virtue vowel words written wrote
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Pàgina 224 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Pàgina 201 - Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love; for at your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment; and what judgment Would step from this to this?
Pàgina 185 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them...
Pàgina 226 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Pàgina 228 - The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul; And one regards itself, and one the whole. Thus God and Nature link'd the general frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
Pàgina 76 - should and would' are similarly used to form future in the past tenses. b) 'will' in the First Person, and 'shall
Pàgina 138 - Hudibras has given, why those who can talk on trifles speak with the greatest fluency ; namely, that the tongue is like a race-horse, which runs the faster the lesser weight it carries. Which of these reasons soever may be looked upon as the most probable, I think the Irishman's thought was very natural, who, after some hours...
Pàgina 228 - tis not my trade ; But here I stand for right, — let him show proofs, — For Roman right, though none, it seems, dare stand To take their share with me. Ay, cluster there ! Cling to your master, judges, Romans, slaves ! His charge is false ; — I dare him to his proofs.
Pàgina 224 - Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine ? Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine ? Wisdom to gold prefer ; for 'tis much less To make our fortune, than our happiness.
Pàgina 219 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.