Not as the conqueror comes Had she lived a twelvemonth more, The teardrop who can blame, One impulse from a vernal wood Next morning as I passed, Shut your eyes, for now the day Could I but see a traitor, How bravely I should fight. So faint I am, these tottering feet No more my palsied frame can bear. In the blue air no smoky cloud Hung over wood and lea, When the old church with the fretted tower Had a hamlet round its knee. As through the drifting snow she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. We walked along, while bright and red She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight. 407. Examine a Subordinate Clause well before making up your mind what to call it. The same Clause may do different work in different sentences; thus: I know when he arrived. I know the hour when he arrived. I was out when he arrived. 'When he arrived' is in the first sentence Object to know, and therefore a Noun Clause; in the second sentence it qualifies the Noun hour, and is therefore an Adjective Clause; in the third sentence it qualifies the Verb was, and is therefore an Adverbial Clause. Exercise 208. Say of what kind each Subordinate Clause is. Do you know where he lives? I live where he lives. I live in the village where he lives. I cannot tell how he can write. He writes how he can. As the bell tinkleth so the fool thinketh. I reached the door as the bells were ringing. As the bells were ringing, the children could not sleep. I bless the day when I first saw you. I remember when I first saw you. My sister was abroad when I first saw you. I see whom you are expecting. pecting. We asked whence he came. must return whence he came. see the person whom you are ex Oxford is the city whence he came. He This is the hour when all are asleep. The thief comes when all are asleep. Do you know when all are asleep? I know where roses grow. hum where roses grow. This is the garden where roses grow. Bees Miscellaneous Complex Sentences for Analysis. While leanest beasts in pastures feed, The fattest ox the first must bleed. He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. My advice is that you endeavour to be honestly rich or contentedly poor. The most convenient habit you can acquire is that of letting your habits sit loose upon you. Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own. He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. The vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise. Trifles discover the character more than actions of importance. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall never be disappointed Γ As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man better be. Though good things answer many good intents, When the infant begins to walk, it thinks it lives in strange times. This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes. The men Whom nature's work can charm, with God himself Hold converse. It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. It was the winter wild When the heaven-born child All meanly wrapp'd in the rude manger lies. I knew it was I, for many do call me fool. The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale. Lowliness is young ambition's ladder To me the meanest flower that blows can give Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour. The boy stood on the burning deck A time there was, ere England's griefs began, That which is a competency for one man is not enough for another. They that govern most make least noise. He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow. Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed time. I love my pretty home, My little garden gay, Where all things look so bright This gladsome first of May. Those who plan some evil From their sin restrain. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man I feared to view my native spot Where one who loved it now was not. Clouds that love through air to hasten, On the heads of towering hills. 'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ Half the ill we do was done Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway. You talk of wondrous things you see. With patience I can bear A loss I ne'er can know. They set, as sets the morning star, which goes Not down behind the darkened west. Now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. Who knows not that truth is strong next to the Almighty? Go search it there where to be born and die Of rich and poor make all the history. Hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide Thou must have uncommended died. Well I know How the bitter wind doth blow. Do whate'er you have to do With a true and earnest will. COMPOUND SENTENCES. 408. Sentences sometimes follow one another which are connected in meaning but not in grammar; as, The way was long, the wind was cold, We have here three independent Simple Sentences : 1. The way was long. 2. The wind was cold. 3. The minstrel was infirm and old.' 409. Simple Sentences are often connected both in meaning and in grammar; as, They had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth, And life is thorny and youth is vain. Here we have five separate and independent Simple Sentences joined by Conjunctions. 410. Such sentences are said to be Co-ordinate. A Sub-ordinate Clause is dependent upon some other part of a Complex Sentence; Co-ordinate Sentences are quite independent of each other. Strictly speaking we have here two sentences :- |