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... sense . Thus , when we say , " Snow is white , " we use snow as a substantial noun ; but when we say , " A snow fell last night , " we mean a body of snow , and use the word as a common noun . The words cottons , grasses , etc. , are ...
... sense . Thus , when we say , " Snow is white , " we use snow as a substantial noun ; but when we say , " A snow fell last night , " we mean a body of snow , and use the word as a common noun . The words cottons , grasses , etc. , are ...
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... sense of laborious effort ) , are sometimes construed as singular , but more frequently as plural . Bellows is by some considered as plural , like tongs , scis- sors , etc .; as , " To make a good orator of a pair of bellows ...
... sense of laborious effort ) , are sometimes construed as singular , but more frequently as plural . Bellows is by some considered as plural , like tongs , scis- sors , etc .; as , " To make a good orator of a pair of bellows ...
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... sense in its place . EXERCISES . Thirty of the following nouns are in the objective case ; name them . The transitive verbs are in capital letters , and the prepositions in italics . The snake BIT the dog . The wolf BIT the horse . John ...
... sense in its place . EXERCISES . Thirty of the following nouns are in the objective case ; name them . The transitive verbs are in capital letters , and the prepositions in italics . The snake BIT the dog . The wolf BIT the horse . John ...
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... sense . Thus , destructive signifies not destroyed , but de- stroying ; corrosive signifies not corroded , but corroding . This is what grammarians mean when they say that adjectives 34 ADJECTIVES . ADJECTIVE 84 ferent Moods 74.
... sense . Thus , destructive signifies not destroyed , but de- stroying ; corrosive signifies not corroded , but corroding . This is what grammarians mean when they say that adjectives 34 ADJECTIVES . ADJECTIVE 84 ferent Moods 74.
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... senses . " - Addison . By this is meant that the sight ap- proaches nearer to perfection than any other sense does . Of the same kind are just , upright , true , honest , complete , accurate , correct , regular , good , white , safe ...
... senses . " - Addison . By this is meant that the sight ap- proaches nearer to perfection than any other sense does . Of the same kind are just , upright , true , honest , complete , accurate , correct , regular , good , white , safe ...
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Page 234 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power : In dreams, through camp and court he bore The trophies of a conqueror...
Page 236 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 250 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 196 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 245 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 194 - 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.
Page 196 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining! They stood aloof, the scars remaining; Like cliffs which had been rent asunder! A dreary sea now flows between ; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween! The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 252 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 237 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 197 - Not there ; not there, my child. Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy, Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy ; Dreams cannot picture a world so fair, Sorrow and death may not enter there ; Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom ; For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, It is there ; it is there, my child.