Parsing Book: Containing Rules of Syntax, and Models for Analyzing and Transposing, Together with Selections of Prose and PoetrySanborn, Carter, 1852 - 111 pages |
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1st Guard adjective adjunct adverb Alhambra analyzing and parsing angels apposition arm'd arms Beelzebub bliss breath Cæsar called CHAPTER Charmian Circassia Cleopatra cloud complex noun conjunction Conjunctive Adverbs Cromwell darkness death deep delight denote dependent clause dread earth eternal fair fate fire flame foes frequently glory Grammar GRENADA groves happy hath heart heaven Hernando de Talavera hills hope hour immortal Infinitive mode intransitive verbs joined king learner light lord modified predicate modified subject mountains nature night NOTE noun or pronoun o'er pain participle peace plural praise preposition rage relative clause relative pronoun REMARKS Rule XXI sense shade sigh silent simple sentences singular smiles Soho square sometimes song sorrow soul spirit stand stood subjunctive supplied sweet Syntax tear tence thee thence thing thou thought thunder tive whence wind wing words
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Page 66 - hurls the tempest forth; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves, 20 With transport touches all the springs of life. Nature, attend! join, every living soul Beneath the spacious temple of the sky, In adoration join; and, ardent, raise One general song! To Him, ye vocal gales, 25
Page 97 - of soul I feel,) 10 To endure more miseries, and greater far, Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer. What news abroad? Crom.— The heaviest and the worst, Is your displeasure with the king. 15 Wol.— God bless him! Crom.—The next is, that Sir Thomas Moore is chosen Lord Chancellor in your place.
Page 100 - dies.] Have I the aspic in my lips ? Dost fall ? If thou and nature can so gently part, 15 The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still? If thus thou vanishes!, thou tell'st the world It is not
Page 71 - 10 How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder HE, who made him such! Who centered in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt, 15 Connexion exquisite of distant worlds!
Page 68 - The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre StUl sing the God of Seasons as they roll.— For me, when I forget the darling theme, Whether the blossom blows, the summer ray Russets the plain, inspiring Autumn gleams, 15 Or Winter rises in the blackening east; Be my tongue mute,
Page 32 - be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless; Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, 15 Truth breathed by cheerfulness. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Thau all the sages can.
Page 107 - 41. I have more by half, than I know what to do with. 42. They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk; all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung.—Milton.
Page 87 - From their foundations loos'ning to and fro They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seiz'd the rebel host, 30 The bottom of the mountains upward turn'd, Till on
Page 51 - And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes 5 In grains as countless as the sea-side sands, The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth. Happy who walks with him! whom* what 2 he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views (f beautiful or grand 10
Page 82 - for ourselves; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, 15 Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;