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A.-Saxon accent according to Meaning according to Structure accusative adjective adverb Anglo-Saxon antecedent auxiliary verbs called CANDIDATES CHAPTER Classify clauses collective noun compound Conjugation conjunctions connected consonant construction corrupted dative Declension defective verbs Define Definition degree denote diminutive Distinguish divided English Grammar Explain the following Explain the meaning feminine following passage following words form their plurals gender genitive gerund Give a list Give examples Goth govern grammatical form expressive hence IMPERATIVE MOOD Indefinite indicative indicative mood infinitive mood inflexions intransitive verbs language letter Low Lat masc meant negative neuter nominative object origin Parse passive past tense perfect participle phrases possessive possibly predicate prefix prepositions present refer relation rule Saxon sent signifies simple singular sometimes sound Strong Verbs subjunctive mood substantive suffix syllable Syntax thing thou tion tive triphthong vide chap vide Etym vowel whence
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Side 268 - all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse,' that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Side 274 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but reliev'd their pain.
Side 281 - Bless'd are those Whose blood and judgment are so well comingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger \ To sound what stop she please: Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.—Something too much of this.
Side 248 - seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses' bower : The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground; and the repeated air Of sad Electra's poet had the power To save the Athenian walls from, ruin bare.
Side 284 - Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear it, that the
Side 321 - in the following passage: This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Side 321 - tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Side 239 - as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.'—2 Cor. vi.
Side 285 - a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; And—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening—nips his root, And then he falls as I do.
Side 267 - Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? 0 yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude,—the shepherd's homely curds, His thin cold drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,