English Exercises: Consisting of Exercises in Parsing, Instances of False Orthography ... Revised, Prepared, and Particularly Adapted to the Use of Schools, Being a Counterpart to the English TeacherR.S. Davis, 1847 |
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adjective adverb allegory antecedent appear attention avoid beauty better blessings censure Cicero comma conduct conjunction correct dangers earth ellipsis English language errours esteem evil examples expressed favour following verbs folly frequently give governed happy heart Heaven honour hope human idea imperfect tense improperly improve indicative mood infinitive mood instances king labours language learned learner live Lord manner means metaphor Metonymy mind nature neuter gender never nominative Note noun object omitted Orthography ourselves parsing participle passions Paul the apostle peace perspicuity piety pleasure plural number possessive potential mood preposition present tense promiscuous exercises proper propriety reason relative pronoun religion render respect reward riches Rules of Syntax SECT sense sentiments signifies silent e singular number speak subjunctive subjunctive mood substantive Synecdoche temper tence thee thing third person thought tion tive truth vice virtue virtuous wise youth
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38. oldal - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
216. oldal - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
38. oldal - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
251. oldal - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
191. oldal - But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
37. oldal - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
249. oldal - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
39. oldal - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale ; And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll And spread the truth from pole to pole.
38. oldal - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
40. oldal - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.