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9. A bird is placed in a bell-glass, A, which stands over the mercury.

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Remorseless Time!

Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe! What power
Can stay him in his silent course, or melt
His iron heart to pity?-Prentice.

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NOTE.-In 3, "who henceforth limps" is a third class adjective element; it belongs to "him." In 4, "whose" is a relative pronoun in the possessive case. In 8, "instead of" is a complex preposition, and shows the relation of "ignorance' to "flung." In 7, "like" is a predicate adjective, equals "similar." In 9, "A" is a proper noun in apposition with "bell-glass." In 11, the first part may be read “(I am) banished," etc.; "traitor" may be considered in the nominative case in the predicate with "(am) tried" and "(am) convicted, if preferred.

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11. "Banished from Rome!" what's banished, but set free From daily contact of the things I loathe? "Tried and convicted traitor!' Who says this? Who'll prove it, at his peril, on my head?-Croly

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Harvey's Grammar, page 206. (Old edition, page 184.)

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5. Even a rugged rock, or a barren heath, though in itself disagreeable, contributes by contrast to the beauty of the whole.

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14. The hills are dearest which our childish feet

Have climbed the earliest, and the streams most sweet
Are ever those at which our young lips drank-
Stoop'd to their waters o'er the grassy bank.

12. Pray for the living, in whose breast The struggle between right and wrong Is raging terrible and strong.

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13. Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed; A rose-bud set with little willful thorns,

And sweet as English air could make her.

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That hungers and supplies it, and who seeks
That has a heart, and keeps it has a mind
A social, not a dissipated life,

14. He that attends to his interior self,

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15. Sometimes her narrow kitchen walls Stretched away into stately halls.- Whittier.

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NOTE.-In 7, "sad" is an adjective in the predicate of the abridged proposition; to be sad" is the subject. In 11, "but" is an adverb, equals "merely." Some authors parse "but an as an adjective. In 12, "Between right and wrong" is a simple adjective element of the second class; it has a compound nounbase. "And" connects "right" and "wrong." In 13, "petulant" is an adjective; or an adverb, equals 'petulantly.' "Rose-bud" is in apposition with modifies "have climbed;" "the" is an adverb of deis an adjective in the superlative degree; it belongs

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