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The origin of the form was lost sight of , and the auxiliary to have ' with the past
part . became a tense . A similar process may have been going on in Teutonic
languages . . 12 NUMERALS . Numerals are used either as adjectives.
The origin of the form was lost sight of , and the auxiliary to have ' with the past
part . became a tense . A similar process may have been going on in Teutonic
languages . . 12 NUMERALS . Numerals are used either as adjectives.
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At sight ; at your peril . Twelve at a shot . At them ! Athwart is poetical , and means
across . Athwart the darkness . And clenched the ear - rings endlong and athwart
with claws of griffin grasp ( adverb ) . Before . Before my face . Before my time .
At sight ; at your peril . Twelve at a shot . At them ! Athwart is poetical , and means
across . Athwart the darkness . And clenched the ear - rings endlong and athwart
with claws of griffin grasp ( adverb ) . Before . Before my face . Before my time .
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Hold an inquest on . Adverb - Put your coat on . You must go six miles on . To go
on , hurry on , help on . Get on with your work . It is going on for four o ' clock . Off
and on . is the opposite to ' into ' or ' in . “ Out ' is an adverbGet out of my sight .
Hold an inquest on . Adverb - Put your coat on . You must go six miles on . To go
on , hurry on , help on . Get on with your work . It is going on for four o ' clock . Off
and on . is the opposite to ' into ' or ' in . “ Out ' is an adverbGet out of my sight .
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In prose this will be shown by the selection of facts ; the keeping out of sight
anything which would mar the effect ; the skilful way in which one idea is
presented in many lights , and made the centre point round which all the rest is
grouped in ...
In prose this will be shown by the selection of facts ; the keeping out of sight
anything which would mar the effect ; the skilful way in which one idea is
presented in many lights , and made the centre point round which all the rest is
grouped in ...
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The best writers who please , not merely their own generation , but live on as a
great people ' s best possession , will not lose sight of this . They either know it or
they feel it ; in either case they act in accordance with it . Each language has a ...
The best writers who please , not merely their own generation , but live on as a
great people ' s best possession , will not lose sight of this . They either know it or
they feel it ; in either case they act in accordance with it . Each language has a ...
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Page 102 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 219 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 124 - Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 124 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 218 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 114 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 113 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
Page 114 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Page 208 - Uncared for, gird the windy grove, And flood the haunts of hern and crake, Or into silver arrows break The sailing moon in creek and cove; Till from the garden and the wild A fresh association blow, And year by year the landscape grow Familiar to the stranger's child; As year by year the laborer tills His wonted glebe, or lops the glades, And year by year our memory fades From all the circle of the hills.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Exercises in Grammatical Analysis Clarendon press series |
| Author | Edward Thring |
| Publisher | Claredon Press, 1868 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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