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... language that progress in learning to use good English has been seriously retarded by the lack of a text book on English grammar , simple enough to be easily understood by pupils in the upper grades of grammar schools , and at the same ...
... language that progress in learning to use good English has been seriously retarded by the lack of a text book on English grammar , simple enough to be easily understood by pupils in the upper grades of grammar schools , and at the same ...
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... languages studied in our schools , it has been considered unnecessary , as well as unwise , to intro- duce terms from other languages , since the English lan- guage is capable of expressing every phase of thought ... Language- iv PREFACE.
... languages studied in our schools , it has been considered unnecessary , as well as unwise , to intro- duce terms from other languages , since the English lan- guage is capable of expressing every phase of thought ... Language- iv PREFACE.
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... Language- Oral and Written . The Sentence , kinds of illustrated Subject and Predicate , use of shown IV . Nouns , examples of , defined V. Pronouns , examples of , defined VI . Verbs , use of , illustrated , defined VII . Adjectives ...
... Language- Oral and Written . The Sentence , kinds of illustrated Subject and Predicate , use of shown IV . Nouns , examples of , defined V. Pronouns , examples of , defined VI . Verbs , use of , illustrated , defined VII . Adjectives ...
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... of object 167 CII . Arrangement or Order , rules of 167 CIII . Figurative Language . 168 CIV . Punctuation 175 CV . Terminal Marks 176 CVI . The Period 176 SECTION PAGB CVII . The Interrogation Point . CVIII . CONTENTS . vii.
... of object 167 CII . Arrangement or Order , rules of 167 CIII . Figurative Language . 168 CIV . Punctuation 175 CV . Terminal Marks 176 CVI . The Period 176 SECTION PAGB CVII . The Interrogation Point . CVIII . CONTENTS . vii.
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... . From the Legend of Sleepy Hollow CXLVI . Our Country CXLVII . The Love of Country and of Home CXLVIII . Fitz James and Ellen PAGE 254 · · 255 256 257 258 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . I. LANGUAGE . ORAL AND WRITTEN . CONTENTS . ix.
... . From the Legend of Sleepy Hollow CXLVI . Our Country CXLVII . The Love of Country and of Home CXLVIII . Fitz James and Ellen PAGE 254 · · 255 256 257 258 ENGLISH GRAMMAR . I. LANGUAGE . ORAL AND WRITTEN . CONTENTS . ix.
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Page 252 - I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, — A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay : Ten thousand saw I, at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ; A poet could not...
Page 254 - No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; 3 And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 250 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Page 239 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, " If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, One, if by land, and...
Page 236 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth ; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth ; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 254 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.
Page 236 - There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is rising calm and bright; The birds are singing in the distant woods...
Page 232 - Rip's story was soon told; for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night. The neighbors stared when they heard it. Some were seen to wink at each other, and put their tongues in their cheeks ; and the self-important man in the cocked hat, who, when the alarm was over, had returned to the field, screwed down the corners of his mouth, and shook his head, upon which there was a general shaking of the head throughout the assemblage.
Page 202 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Page 251 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying ; the impetuous charge ; the steady and successful repulse ; the loud call to repeated assault ; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...