An easy English grammar, Volume 4 |
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Adjectival clause Adjective Adjective-sentence Adjuncts of Subject Adverb Adverbial Adjunct Adverbial clause Adverbial sentences Adverbial-sentence Attributive Adjuncts bad eminence barbaric pearl CHAPTER comes complete sense COMPLEX SENTENCES compound sentences CONTRACTED SENTENCES daeg EASY ENGLISH GRAMMAR English language enlargement Eorthan example Extension of Predicate Faeder Gehalgod gorgeous East GRAMMAR FOR BEGINNERS Gyltas Henry VI heofenum heofnas hlaf Incomplete Predication J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN King Latin element Let us take LORD'S PRAYER Manchester Norse Noun Noun-sentence Object old English outshone PALL MALL COURT pearl and gold phrase plain Preposition PRICE SIXPENCE principal sentence Pronoun richest hand ROBERT BURNS Robert Southwell ROOT Satan Saxon SCHOOL BOOKS Scylda sentence or clause sits Sold in London sold the fruit subordinate sentences swa swa Syle take the sentence thee thin willa thou throne of royal thrown urum Verb of Incomplete W. H. SMITH wealth of Ormuz words
Popular passages
Page 67 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 44 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Page 46 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 56 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 55 - Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?
Page 45 - To God's eternal house direct the way ; A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear, Seen in the galaxy, that milky way, Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars.
Page 57 - ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 43 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 44 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will...
Page 43 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.