Oxford local examinations. Thomson's Spring: with a life of the poet, notes and remarks. By W. M'Leod1863 |
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adjective qualifying adjective sentence adverbial sentence amid Analysis beautiful birds bittern blazing straw bloom blossoms breath breeze called Cambrian mountains chaff And blazing check this plague CLAUSES OR SENTENCES clouds Co-ord co-ordinate colours complete compound sentence day delightless delight descend drops earth enlarged ethereal example extension fancy flocks flowers gale gentle governed green heart heaven hence hollowed earth Hyperbaton indirect object infinitive mood ingulphed insects JAMES THOMSON Kind of Sentence kings and awful larvæ light LINE Nature nest nominative absolute noun sentence o'er participle passions phrase plain plover poem poet Predicate Completion Princ principal sentence pronoun rain rook round Seasons Sent shade shining shower Simple Sentences sing soft song soul Spring sweet swells Syllepsis tence thee Thomson thou thought transitive verb trembling tribes understood various verdure walk wild winds wing Winter woods words Zephyrus
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Page 120 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 80 - Along these blushing borders bright with dew, And in yon mingled wilderness of flowers, Fair-handed Spring unbosoms every grace — Throws out the snow-drop and the crocus first...
Page 98 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Page 85 - Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn ; Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations.
Page 119 - What is the world to them, Its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all, Who in each other clasp whatever fair High fancy forms, and lavish hearts can wish; Something than beauty dearer, should they look Or on the mind, or mind-illumin'd face; Truth, goodness, honour, harmony, and love, The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven?
Page 39 - And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts : His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill, The shattered forest, and the ravaged vale ; While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch, Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost, The mountains lift their green heads to the sky.
Page 63 - Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
Page 6 - ... presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the
Page 78 - See, where the winding vale its lavish stores, Irriguous, spreads. See, how the lily drinks The latent rill, scarce oozing through the grass, Of growth luxuriant; or the humid bank, In fair profusion, decks.
Page 54 - In glassy breadth, seem through delusive lapse Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and mute-imploring eye The falling verdure. Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, And wait the approaching sign to strike at once Into the general choir.