New Language Lessons: An Elementary Grammar and CompositionHarper & Brothers, 1880 - 192 pages |
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... Dear , patient , gentle Nell was dead . 9. Be not like dumb , driven cattle . 10. The way was long , the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm and old . 11. This silly little grasshopper Despised his wise old mother . d . Arrange the ...
... Dear , patient , gentle Nell was dead . 9. Be not like dumb , driven cattle . 10. The way was long , the wind was cold ; The minstrel was infirm and old . 11. This silly little grasshopper Despised his wise old mother . d . Arrange the ...
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... dear . 3. Some birds fly very swiftly . Analysis . The word " brightly " adds something to the meaning of the verb " burns ; " the word " exceedingly " adds something to the meaning of the adjective " dear ; " the word " very " adds ...
... dear . 3. Some birds fly very swiftly . Analysis . The word " brightly " adds something to the meaning of the verb " burns ; " the word " exceedingly " adds something to the meaning of the adjective " dear ; " the word " very " adds ...
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... dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery ? Forbid it , Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me , give me liberty or give me death ! 5. Oh ! call my brother back to me ...
... dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery ? Forbid it , Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me , give me liberty or give me death ! 5. Oh ! call my brother back to me ...
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... Dear Miss Cheeryble : I reside in Chicago , Cook County , My name is Emily Faithful , and I Illinois . am ten years of age . Yours truly , Emily Faithful . XXXVIII . — THE PRONOUN : Personal . Select from the following examples all the ...
... Dear Miss Cheeryble : I reside in Chicago , Cook County , My name is Emily Faithful , and I Illinois . am ten years of age . Yours truly , Emily Faithful . XXXVIII . — THE PRONOUN : Personal . Select from the following examples all the ...
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... Dear little blossoms down under the snow , You must be weary of winter , I know . b . Rule slates or paper , and write the pronouns in the previous ex- ercise according to this model . PERSONAL . RELATIVE . INTERROGATIVE . I you me ...
... Dear little blossoms down under the snow , You must be weary of winter , I know . b . Rule slates or paper , and write the pronouns in the previous ex- ercise according to this model . PERSONAL . RELATIVE . INTERROGATIVE . I you me ...
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Page 82 - While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They wrapt the ship in splendour wild, They caught the flag on high, And streamed above the gallant child, Like banners in the sky. There came a burst of thunder sound — The boy — oh ! where was he ? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea ! — With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part — But the noblest thing which...
Page 20 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters; and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth. This put me in mind what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money ; and they laughed at me so much for my folly, that I cried with. vexation, and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Page 100 - I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Page 64 - O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I' try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine! Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all!
Page 158 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Page 84 - And will you, my man," said he, patting me on the head, "get me a little hot water?" How could I refuse? I ran, and soon brought a kettleful. " How old are you ? and what's your name ? " continued he, without waiting for a reply.
Page 119 - The Reaper said, and smiled ; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 39 - The sun rose high, and sank, and the battle still raged. Through all the wild October day, the clash and din resounded in the air. In the red sunset, and in the white moonlight, heaps upon heaps of dead men lay strewn, a dreadful spectacle, all over the ground.
Page 185 - I have been, 1. We have been, 2. Thou hast been, 2. You have been, 3. He has been; 3. They have been.
Page 189 - Part. eat ate eaten fall fell fallen feed fed fed feel felt felt fight fought fought find found found flee fled fled fling flung flung fly flew flown...