New Grammar of the English TongueBlackwood, 1887 - 252 páginas |
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... LATIN PREFIXES GREEK PREFIXES ENGLISH SUFFIXES LATIN AND FRENCH SUFFIXES GREEK SUFFIXES WORD - BRANCHING ENGLISH ROOTS 101 102 102 103 104 107 110 112 118 125 127 128 LATIN ROOTS 131 GREEK ROOTS 136 WORDS DERIVED FROM THE NAMES OF ...
... LATIN PREFIXES GREEK PREFIXES ENGLISH SUFFIXES LATIN AND FRENCH SUFFIXES GREEK SUFFIXES WORD - BRANCHING ENGLISH ROOTS 101 102 102 103 104 107 110 112 118 125 127 128 LATIN ROOTS 131 GREEK ROOTS 136 WORDS DERIVED FROM THE NAMES OF ...
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... LATIN PREFIXES GREEK PREFIXES ENGLISH SUFFIXES LATIN AND FRENCH SUFFIXES GREEK SUFFIXES WORD - BRANCHING ENGLISH ROOTS LATIN ROOTS 100 • 101 102 • 102 103 104 107 110 112 • 118 125 127 128 131 GREEK ROOTS 136 WORDS DERIVED FROM THE ...
... LATIN PREFIXES GREEK PREFIXES ENGLISH SUFFIXES LATIN AND FRENCH SUFFIXES GREEK SUFFIXES WORD - BRANCHING ENGLISH ROOTS LATIN ROOTS 100 • 101 102 • 102 103 104 107 110 112 • 118 125 127 128 131 GREEK ROOTS 136 WORDS DERIVED FROM THE ...
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... Latin nomen , a name . From this word we have also nominal , denominate , denomination , etc. THE CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS . 2. Nouns are of two classes - Proper and Common . 3. A proper noun is the name of an individual , as an in ...
... Latin nomen , a name . From this word we have also nominal , denominate , denomination , etc. THE CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS . 2. Nouns are of two classes - Proper and Common . 3. A proper noun is the name of an individual , as an in ...
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... Latin word which means bending . An inflexion , therefore , is a bending away from the ordinary form of the word . GENDER . 8. Gender is , in grammar , the mode of distinguishing sex by the aid of words , prefixes , or suffixes . The ...
... Latin word which means bending . An inflexion , therefore , is a bending away from the ordinary form of the word . GENDER . 8. Gender is , in grammar , the mode of distinguishing sex by the aid of words , prefixes , or suffixes . The ...
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... a , and the feminine e , as in wicca , wicce , witch . Hence we find the names of many Saxon kings ending in a , as Isa , Offa , Penda , etc. B. Latin and French Suffixes . 11. The chief feminine 12 GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... a , and the feminine e , as in wicca , wicce , witch . Hence we find the names of many Saxon kings ending in a , as Isa , Offa , Penda , etc. B. Latin and French Suffixes . 11. The chief feminine 12 GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
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Página 242 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 163 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 208 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 236 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 165 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Página 238 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 81 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 219 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Página 172 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 244 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!