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2ndly adjective clause Adjective sentence adjunct of place ADVERBIAL CLAUSES RELATING Adverbial sentence ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES Attila was buried attributive relation causative complete thought Completion of Predicate COMPLEX SENTENCE compound sentence connexion of sentences copulative Demosthenes denotes determined employed enlarge the subject ENLARGED PREDICATE enlarged subject EXAMPLE Extension of Predicate finite verb follows the construction fundamental rules given action given existence grammatical Greece were pursuing idea imperative mood indicated infinitive mood laws of syntax logical analysis nomi nominative NOTIONAL WORDS notions which signify noun in apposition objective relation occupies the place participle phrase Plato wrote dialogues PREDICATE completed predicative relation preposition principal sentence pronoun Pyrrho qualified racter relating to manner RELATION OF NOTIONS relative pronoun REMARK rules of syntax signify action signify existence simple predicate simple sentence simple subject speaker subordinate clause subordinate sentence substantive clause Substantive sentence Themistocles thou transitive verb Walking is healthy whither wrote dialogues magnificently
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Page 17 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 17 - Confess'd from yonder slow-extinguish'd clouds, All ether softening, sober Evening takes Her wonted station in the middle air; A thousand shadows at her beck. First this She sends on earth; then that of deeper dye Steals soft behind; and then a deeper still, In circle following circle, gathers round, To close the face of things.
Page 22 - Glanced from the imperfect surfaces of things. • Flings half an image on the straining eye ; While wavering woods, and villages, and streams, And rocks, and mountain-tops, that long retained The ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld. Sudden to heaven Thence weary vision turns; where, leading soft The silent hours of love, with purest ray Sweet...
Page 17 - If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice 'believe no more' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered 'I have felt.
Page 29 - On the hardest adamant some foot-print of us is stamped in ; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van. But whence ?—O Heaven, whither ? Sense knows not; Faith knows not; only that it is through Mystery to Mystery, from God and to God. ' " We are such stuff As Dreams are made of, and our little Life Is rounded with a sleep!
Page 17 - IN silent horror, o'er the boundless waste The driver Hassan with his camels past : One cruise of water on his back he bore, And his light scrip contain'da scanty store ; A fan of painted feathers in his hand, To guard his shaded face from scorching sand. The sultry sun had gain'd the middle sky, And not a tree, and not an herb was nigh ; The beasts with pain their dusty way...
Page 5 - convinced that the proper study of language is the preparatory discipline for all abstract thinking, and that if the intellect is to be strengthened in this direction, we must begin the process here.
Page 33 - Between the tropics, the barometer attains its greatest height at nine or half-past nine in the morning ; it then sinks till four in the afternoon, after which it again rises and attains a second maximum at...
Page 30 - Honour thy father and mother that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth : and then he applies himself to parents, And, ye fathers, fyo.
Page 29 - As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.