Murray's English grammar, adapted to the different classes of learners, enlarged by J. Davis

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Página 275 - broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts; look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine. See also Ezekiel, xvii. 22—24.
Página 288 - View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, | assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, | and—yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault,
Página 305 - strictest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am judged, for the hope of the promise made by God unto our fathers; unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come; for which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.
Página 292 - He is still more violently distracted, and fancies he sees the ghost of the murdered King: Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee; thy bones are marrowless, Thy blood is cold; thou hast no speculation In those eyes which thou dost stare with. Hence! horrible shadow; unreal mockery, hence!
Página 305 - against the goads. And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of those things which thou hast seen, and of those things in
Página 289 - Me, miserable! •which way shall 1 fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell, myself am Hell; And in the lowest depth, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven. The
Página 288 - contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men, in all countries. The HYPERBOLE consists in magnifying or diminishing an object beyond reality. This figure is in common use, both among the learned and unlearned. The human
Página 279 - when the superior fiend Was moving towards the shore; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. Milton.
Página 220 - To gain a posthumous reputation, is to save four or five letters (for what is a name besides?) from oblivion.' 'Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth
Página 305 - shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews; especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore, I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

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