EDITED BY FRANCIS STORR, B.A., CHIEF MASTER OF MODERN SUBJECTS IN MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL. THOMSON'S SEASONS: Winter. With an Introduction to the Series. By the Rev. J. F. BRIGHT, M.A. IS. COWPER'S TASK. By FRANCIS STORR, B.A. 25.; or in Three Parts, 9d. each. COWPER'S SIMPLE POEMS. By FRANCIS STORR, B.A. IS. SCOTT'S LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. By J. SURTEES PHILLPOTTS, M.A., Head Master of Bedford School. 2s. 6d.; or in Four Parts, gd. each. SCOTT'S LADY OF THE LAKE. By R. W. TAYLOR, M.A., Head Master of Kelly College, Tavistock. 25. or in Three Parts, 9d. each. SCOTT'S MARMION. By F. S. ARNOLD, M.A., Assistant Master at Bedford School. NOTES TO SCOTT'S WAVERLEY. By H. W. EVE, M.A., Head Master of University College School, London. BACON'S ESSAYS. Complete Edition. By FRANCIS STORR, B.A. TWENTY OF BACON'S ESSAYS. SIMPLE POEMS. By W. E. MULLINS, M.A., Assistant Master at Marlborough College. 8d SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH'S POEMS. By H. H. TURNER, B.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. Is. WORDSWORTH'S EXCURSION: The Wanderer. By H. H. TURNER, B.A. IS. MILTON'S PARADISE LOST. By FRANCIS STORR, B.A. Book I., 9d. Book II., 9d. MILTON'S L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO, AND LYCIDAS. By EDWARD STORR, M.A., late Scholar of New College, Oxford. SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECTATOR. IS. By OSMUND AIRY, M.A., late Assistant Master at Wellington College. Is. BROWNE'S RELIGIO MEDICI. By W. P. SMITH, M.A., Assistant Master at Winchester College. Is. GOLDSMITH'S TRAVELLER AND DESERTED VILLAGE. By C. SANKEY, M.A., Head Master of Bury St. Edmund's Grammar School. IS. EXTRACTS from GOLDSMITH'S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. By C. SANKEY, M.A. IS. POEMS SELECTED from the WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. By A. M. BELL, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford. 25, MACAULAY'S ESSAYS: MOORE'S LIFE OF BYRON. By FRANCIS STORR, B.A. 9d. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. By FRANCIS STORR, B.A. 9d. HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. By H. F. BOYD, late Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford. IS. SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON. By W. E. MULLINS, M.A. 2s. 6d. GRAY'S POEMS. SELECTION FROM LETTERS, with LIFE by JOHNSON. By FRANCIS STORR, B.A. IS. Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London. 2 PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured to sketch in the following pages a course of English Parsing and Analysis suitable for the lower Forms in Classical Schools. I have omitted altogether to treat of Inflections, Derivation, Punctuation, &c., taking into consideration the very limited time, at most an hour or so a week, that can be spared for English Grammar.* As a rule, boys begin to turn English Sentences into Latin as soon as they know a Declension or two and a few tenses of a Verb; and such attempts are of course useful in giving facility in the use of Inflections. Unfortunately the learner who starts in this way has not grasped the elementary principles which underlie the construction of an English as well as of a Latin Sentence, and is thus confronted from the first with the difficulties of Syntax. Indeed, this ignorance of principles makes itself evident, even in boys who have been learning Latin for years, as soon as they are cast adrift from the Latin Exercisebook, with its hints and cautions, references and para * Also I have taken for granted such a practical acquaintance with English as makes it unnecessary to discuss the Compound forms of the verb ; e.g. am loving, would have loved. |