New Grammar of the English TongueBlackwood, 1887 - 252 páginas |
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... visage lies , whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command , Tell that the sculptor well those passions read Which still survive , stamped on these lifeless things , The hand that mocked them , and the heart that fed : And on ...
... visage lies , whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command , Tell that the sculptor well those passions read Which still survive , stamped on these lifeless things , The hand that mocked them , and the heart that fed : And on ...
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abstract accented adjective adverb Analyse becomes called comes Compare compound conjunctions connected consists dative denotes derived direct distinguished employed ending English Enlargement examples EXERCISE Explain express feminine four French function Future gender gerund Give govern Grammar Greek hand hard Hence Indefinite indicate INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive italics John kind king language Latin letters live look meaning mind modifies Mood nature nominative noun object origin Parse participle passage passing passive Past Perfect person phrase plural Point possessive Predicate prefixes preposition Present pronoun relation root RULE sentence Shakespeare short Show simple Singular sometimes sound speak speech stand striking strong struck subordinate suffix syllable Tense things thou transitive verb verse voice walked words write written
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Página 240 - 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 161 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 206 - 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 234 - 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 163 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Página 236 - 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 79 - 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 217 - 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 170 - 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 242 - 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!
Información bibliográfica
| Título | New Grammar of the English Tongue |
| Autor | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn |
| Editor | Blackwood, 1887 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 27 Feb. 2006 |
| Largo | 252 páginas |
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