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Términos y frases comunes
action expressed Adjuncts Adverb ANALYSIS Antecedent asserts an act Auxiliary Sentence commonly compound sentence Conj Conjunction connection construction describe a noun Diagram earnest culture earth ellipsis English language etymology EXAMPLES EXAMPLES-I Exclamation Exercises Gender Grammar heaven Indicative Mode Interrogative Intransitive ject John king of shadows loved Masculine modify mysterious Neuter Nominative NOTE Noun or Pronoun Nouns and Pronouns o'er object of relation OBS.-The parsing Participle Passive Passive Voice Past Tense Person and Number person or thing Plural Number Possessive Possessive Adjective Predicate Prefixes Prep Preposition Present Tense Principal Sentence PRIOR FUTURE PRIOR PAST PRIOR PRESENT Pron proper Regular Verb relation expressed Relative Pronoun RULE Scaling yonder SENTENCE-PRINCIPAL Shows a relation Simple Singular Number sleeps sometimes Specifying Adjectives spoken storm Subject Subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MODE Substantive teacher tence thee Third Person Thou Transitive Verbs Verbal Adjective voice walked Words of Euphony
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Página 172 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Página 169 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 112 - Thus star by star declines Till all are passed away, As morning high and higher shines To pure and perfect day : Nor sink those stars in empty night ; They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
Página 30 - Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic necessity ; he composed without consideration, and published without correction. What his mind could supply at call, or gather in one excursion was all that he sought, and all that he gave. The dilatory caution of Pope enabled him to condense his sentiments, to multiply his images, and to accumulate all that study might produce, or chance might supply.
Página 190 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.
Página 200 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Página 162 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 55 - That run along the summit of these trees In music; thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist ground, are all instinct with thee.
Página 182 - For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers...
Página 112 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blest.