English SyntaxH. Gesenius, 1909 - 194 pages |
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abstract nouns accusative action Addison adjective adverb anders answer arbeiten arrive Aufl Auflage auxiliary verb better Buch Bulwer comma Comp Compare conditional sentences conjunction connection corresponding dare dative definite article denotes dependent clause dependent sentence Dickens employed englischen English Syntax expressed French frequently gehen German gerund Gesenius Goldsmith implies indefinite indicative infinitive interrogative intransitive Irving Johnson king language live Macaulay machen Marryat means möchte negative never Oberlehrer object omitted one's participle passive passive voice past tense periphrastic periphrastic form personal pronoun pluperfect plural preceded predicate preposition present principal sentence proper name Proverb Queen question refers reflexive reflexive pronoun Reflexive Verbs relative clause relative pronoun relative sentence rendered Saxon genitive schon Scott ſein Shakespeare ſich signifies singular soll sometimes speak subjunctive substantive superlative thing thou town transitive verbs translated viel whither wish wollen words Zeit
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Page 28 - Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Page 2 - The dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid, inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy.
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Page 48 - To advise the ignorant, relieve the needy, comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives.
Page 126 - have come to an agreement, which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
Page 194 - Select Extracts from British and American Authors in Prose and Verse. Intended as an Introduction to the Study of English Literature. Chronologically arranged with short biographical notices.
Page 165 - I should very imperfectly execute the task which I have undertaken if I were merely to treat of battles and sieges, of the rise and fall of administrations, of intrigues in the palace, and of debates in the parliament. It will be my...
Page 172 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns. He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 61 - The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have achieved ; and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives and untimely deaths.
Page 171 - History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?