New Grammar of the English TongueBlackwood, 1887 - 252 pages |
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... Julius Cęsar , " makes Brutus say , tears for his love , joy for his fortune , honour for his valour , and death for his ambition . " And , in the same way , people say , " Where is my hat and stick ? " RULE XXX . - The verb to be is ...
... Julius Cęsar , " makes Brutus say , tears for his love , joy for his fortune , honour for his valour , and death for his ambition . " And , in the same way , people say , " Where is my hat and stick ? " RULE XXX . - The verb to be is ...
Page 81
... Julius Cęsar , " we find— " Were I Brutus , And Brutus Antony , there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits . " RULE XXXVIII . - The Simple Infinitive - without the sign to - is used with auxiliary verbs , such as may , do , shall ...
... Julius Cęsar , " we find— " Were I Brutus , And Brutus Antony , there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits . " RULE XXXVIII . - The Simple Infinitive - without the sign to - is used with auxiliary verbs , such as may , do , shall ...
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... Julius , in honour of Julius Cęsar , the great Roman general , writer , and statesman - who was born in this month . Lazarettor or Lazar - house , from Lazarus , the beggar at the gate of Dives , in Luke xvi . The word is corrupted ...
... Julius , in honour of Julius Cęsar , the great Roman general , writer , and statesman - who was born in this month . Lazarettor or Lazar - house , from Lazarus , the beggar at the gate of Dives , in Luke xvi . The word is corrupted ...
Page 155
... Julius Cęsar , " ii . 1. 187 , we find , " Take thought , and die for Cęsar . " Trivial , very common . Lat . trivia , a place where three roads meet . Restive , obstinate , inclined to rest or stand still . " To turn rusty " ( = resty ) ...
... Julius Cęsar , " ii . 1. 187 , we find , " Take thought , and die for Cęsar . " Trivial , very common . Lat . trivia , a place where three roads meet . Restive , obstinate , inclined to rest or stand still . " To turn rusty " ( = resty ) ...
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... Cęsar fell . " — Julius Cęsar . 2. Point out and explain the force of the adjective suffixes in the following : - : - " At which time would I , being but a moonish youth , grieve , be effeminate , changeable , proud , fantastical ...
... Cęsar fell . " — Julius Cęsar . 2. Point out and explain the force of the adjective suffixes in the following : - : - " At which time would I , being but a moonish youth , grieve , be effeminate , changeable , proud , fantastical ...
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Page 242 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 163 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 208 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 236 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 165 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Page 238 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 81 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 219 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Page 172 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 244 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!