An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language : Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises, and a Key to the Exercises, Volum 1 |
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of ..., Volums 1-2 Lindley Murray Visualització completa - 1819 |
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accent according action active adjective admit adverb agree appears applied arrangement attention auxiliary bave beginning better called Chap circumstances common conjunction connected considered consists construction contains denote derived distinct effect English examples Exercises expression figure frequently future gender give governed grammar happy ideas imperfect importance indicative mood instances kind king language learned less live loved manner marked means mind mood nature never nominative noun object observations occasions participle particular past perfect person phrases pleasure plural position possessive preceding preposition present principles produce pronoun proper properly propriety reason refer relation relative require respect rule sense sentence short signifies singular sometimes sound speak substantive syllable tense thing thou thought tion verb virtue voice vowel wbich words writing
Passatges populars
Pàgina 326 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob ; Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Pàgina 321 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Pàgina 312 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pàgina 356 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Pàgina 97 - But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
Pàgina 302 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Pàgina 322 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold...
Pàgina 163 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Pàgina 262 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Pàgina 305 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.