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accent Active adjective adverbs alliteration auxiliary bear beginning belonging body bring brought called common commonly compounds conjugated consonants dare durst end of words England English English tongue father French Frisian Germanic give given Greek ground half happy head High Dutch horse hundred IMPERFECT TENSE INDICATIVE MOOD Irish kind land Latin leading learning letters light likewise lines living look mark meaning measure middle MOOD Mute nouns objective Participle PERFECT person plural possessive prepositions Present pronoun rhyme root Saxons ship short simple Sing singular sometimes sound speaking speech spoken stands substantive syllable taken thee thing thou verb vowel wast weighed woman writing written
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Page 127 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Page 129 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 142 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Page 131 - Unbetray'd by faithless man ; Where a tyrant never trod, Where a slave was never known, But where Nature worships GOD In the wilderness alone ; — Thither, thither would I roam ; There my children may be free : I for them will find a home, They shall find a grave for me. Though my fathers' bones afar In their native land repose, Yet beneath the twilight star Soft on mine the turf shall close.
Page 137 - With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
Page 143 - Man, like the generous vine, supported lives ; The strength he gains is from th' embrace he gives. On their own axis as the planets run, Yet make at once their circle round the sun ; So two consistent motions act the soul, And one regards itself, and one the whole.
Page 143 - would not be adequate to the purpose of signature, if it had not the power to retain, as well as to receive the impression, the same holds of the soul, with respect to sense and imagination. Sense is its receptive power ; imagination, its retentive. Had it sense without imagination, it would not be as wax, but as water, where, though all impressions are instantly made, yet as soon as they are made, they are instantly lost.
Page 137 - O come, let us worship and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 136 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 138 - Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright ; The shrieks of death, thro...
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| Title | A Grammar of the English Tongue: Spoken and Written, for Self-teaching and for Schools |
| Author | Hyde Clarke |
| Publisher | J. Weale, 1853 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 152 pages |
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