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according to Rule action added adjective element adverb adverbial element analyze antecedent attribute auxiliary auxiliary verb bird called complex complex predicate compound conjunction connective consonant construction coördinate copula Correct the following couldst denotes elementary sounds expressed following examples following sentences following words future Future Perfect Tense gender George give grammar hence horse indefinite infinitive interrogative intransitive learner lesson letter loved masculine meaning mightst MODEL modified neuter nominative noun or pronoun object ORAL EXERCISE parsed passive form passive participle passive voice past participle Past Perfect Tense Past Tense personal pronouns ploughed Plur plural possessive prefixes Present Perfect Tense Present Tense progressive form Pupils rain relation relative relative pronoun represent simple sing singular number speak speaker sponge subjunctive subordinate clause subvocal syllable Teacher tell third person thou tion tive transitive verb tree voice vowel write
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Page 220 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Page 220 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, — Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand, — From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, — They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Page 137 - I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Page 220 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 220 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 138 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 138 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure ? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.
Page 109 - The sound of that advancing multitude Which soon shall fill these deserts. From the ground Comes up the laugh of children, the soft voice Of maidens, and the sweet and solemn hymn Of Sabbath worshippers. The low of herds Blends with the rustling of the heavy grain Over the dark brown furrows. All at once A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the •wilderness alone.
Page 211 - Its great tendency and purpose is, to carry the mind beyond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of ordinary life; to lift it into a purer element, and to breathe into it more profound and generous emotion.
Page 201 - Metonymy is a figure by which we put the cause for the effect, or the effect for the cause; as, when we say, "He reads Milton,