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... sentence without changing its meaning . In their language , " The dog ate the wolf , " with slightly varied terminations , could read , " The wolf ate the dog . " For this reason , they could alter their phraseology , in order to ...
... sentence without changing its meaning . In their language , " The dog ate the wolf , " with slightly varied terminations , could read , " The wolf ate the dog . " For this reason , they could alter their phraseology , in order to ...
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... sentence , " Go on , I say ; get along ; I tell you I'll not wait for you ; move on . " In fulfilment of the princi- ples stated above , this stress is used when one seems to be conscious of nothing but his own organs to prevent the ...
... sentence , " Go on , I say ; get along ; I tell you I'll not wait for you ; move on . " In fulfilment of the princi- ples stated above , this stress is used when one seems to be conscious of nothing but his own organs to prevent the ...
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... sentences , " I am determined to remain true to my cause , " " I despise the man . " The arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables analogous to this is found evidently , for reasons similar MEANINGS OF THE METRES . 65.
... sentences , " I am determined to remain true to my cause , " " I despise the man . " The arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables analogous to this is found evidently , for reasons similar MEANINGS OF THE METRES . 65.
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... sentences is changed upon our uttering them with a rising ( ) or falling ( ) or with a circumflex inflection , ending with a rising ( ) or a falling ( 4 ) movement . If só I will gó . It must be so . It depends . John declaims well . Of ...
... sentences is changed upon our uttering them with a rising ( ) or falling ( ) or with a circumflex inflection , ending with a rising ( ) or a falling ( 4 ) movement . If só I will gó . It must be so . It depends . John declaims well . Of ...
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... sentence , calling our attention to these objects . In reading his words , we think first of the objects as exist- ing , and then of what they did : The wind it blew , and the ship it flew 64 And it was Hey for hame . " And then the ...
... sentence , calling our attention to these objects . In reading his words , we think first of the objects as exist- ing , and then of what they did : The wind it blew , and the ship it flew 64 And it was Hey for hame . " And then the ...
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Page 168 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 39 - River where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 218 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Page 282 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the- nations...
Page 153 - But his sagacious eye an inmate owns: By one, and one, the bolts full easy slide: — The chains lie silent on the footworn stones; The key turns, and the door...
Page 112 - While life's dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow's tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside. 4 When ends life's transient dream, When death's cold, sullen stream Shall o'er me roll, Blest Saviour, then, in love, Fear and distrust remove; O, bear me safe above, A ransomed souL KayPulmor.
Page 73 - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to Thee. 2 Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to Thee.
Page 46 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Page 71 - Stormed at with shot and shelL Boldly they rode and well; Into the jaws of Death. Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.
Page 155 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.