Practical Grammar, Based Upon the Text of Longfellow's "Evangeline" and a Selection from Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico,"Lothrop Publishing Company, 1903 - 361 pages |
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... called nouns . ( Commit definition , Grammar : 4. ) Exercise 5 Remembering that nouns are always name - words , make a list of nouns that have been used thus far in Evangeline . THE VILLAGE OF GRAND - PRÉ Continued There , in the midst ...
... called nouns . ( Commit definition , Grammar : 4. ) Exercise 5 Remembering that nouns are always name - words , make a list of nouns that have been used thus far in Evangeline . THE VILLAGE OF GRAND - PRÉ Continued There , in the midst ...
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... called " gossiping " ? 5. What sort of man do you imagine the priest was ? 6. Can you close your eyes and see the village of Grand - Pré in the summer twilight ? Without referring to your book , make a list of the things you can recall ...
... called " gossiping " ? 5. What sort of man do you imagine the priest was ? 6. Can you close your eyes and see the village of Grand - Pré in the summer twilight ? Without referring to your book , make a list of the things you can recall ...
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... called Blomidon , but knows noth- ing of its location , instead of the words to the northward he will use the question - word Where , putting it at the first of the sentence , thus : Where did Blomidon rise ? Change A STUDY OF SENTENCES 15.
... called Blomidon , but knows noth- ing of its location , instead of the words to the northward he will use the question - word Where , putting it at the first of the sentence , thus : Where did Blomidon rise ? Change A STUDY OF SENTENCES 15.
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... called pronouns are used to avoid too fre- quent repetition of nouns . Were it not for these very useful words , the sentence in lines 74 and 75 would read , Down the long street Evangeline passed , with Evangeline's chaplet of beads ...
... called pronouns are used to avoid too fre- quent repetition of nouns . Were it not for these very useful words , the sentence in lines 74 and 75 would read , Down the long street Evangeline passed , with Evangeline's chaplet of beads ...
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... called the simple subject . ( Grammar : 116. ) This simple subject may be enlarged by having words joined to it to describe or modify in some way its meaning . These enlargements serve to give us a better idea or picture of the thing ...
... called the simple subject . ( Grammar : 116. ) This simple subject may be enlarged by having words joined to it to describe or modify in some way its meaning . These enlargements serve to give us a better idea or picture of the thing ...
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Page 3 - This is the forest primeval; But where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, When he hears in the woodland The voice of the huntsman?
Page 17 - But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Page 7 - West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain; and away to the northward Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended.
Page 17 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop . Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them...
Page 301 - And with them the being beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine ; And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 182 - Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows. On the pallet before her was stretched the form of an old man. Long, and thin, and gray were the locks that shaded his temples...
Page 183 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
Page 9 - Over the basement below protected and shaded the doorway. There, in the tranquil evenings of summer, when brightly the sunset Lighted the village street, and gilded the vanes on the chimneys, Matrons and maidens sat in snow-white caps and in kirtles Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens.
Page 112 - Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted ; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment ; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Page 118 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.