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accent active participle adjective adverb agree alfo alſo anfwers annexed auxiliary auxiliary verbs befides CHAP circumftance compounded confequence confideration confidered confonant conjunction converfation derived diftinction diphthong English expreffed expreffion fame fecond perfon feems fenfe fent fentence ferve feveral fhall fhort fhould fignification firſt fome fometimes formed former fpeaking fpecies fpeech French frequently ftate fubftantive fubftituted fubject fubjunctive mode fuch fuperlative fyllable gained governed Greek houſe implies infinitive mode inftances intimates laft language Latin latter lefs likewife Lowth moft moſt neceffary neuter nominative cafe noun noun or pronoun obferved objective cafe occafionally paffage paffion paffive participle perfon or thing phrafe phraſes Plur poffeffive cafe precedes Prefent Tenfe prefixed prepofition preterite purpoſe reafon refembling refers refpect relative pronoun reprefented Saxon tence tenſe termination thefe themſelves theſe third perfon fingular thofe thoſe thou tion tive ufed ufually uſed verb vowel whofe words writing
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Page 279 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 268 - Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day ; Defend us in the same with thy mighty power ; and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger ; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 258 - O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Page 218 - ... that sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment of need for that which yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow.
Page 254 - I have said to corruption, Thou art my father to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Page 75 - AMONG all kinds of writing, there is none in which authors are more apt to miscarry than in works of humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
Page 265 - The modern tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome in the' intricacy and disposition of the fable ; but, what a Christian writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short of it in the moral part of the performance.
Page 254 - From it's decline determin'd to recede ? Did I but purpofe to embark with thee On the fmooth furface of a fummer's fea ? While gentle Zephyrs play in profperous...
Page 261 - I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy Name, because of thy loving-kindness and truth ; for thou hast magnified thy Name, and thy Word, above all things.
Page 280 - Mufe's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble ftrife, Their fober wifhes never learn'd to ftray ; Along the cool fequefter'd vale of life They kept the noifelefs tenor of their way. Yet...