New Grammar of the English TongueBlackwood, 1887 - 252 pages |
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... Shakespeare , Milton , are all proper nouns . The word proper comes from the Latin proprius , one's own . Hence a proper noun is , in relation to one person , one's own name . From the same word we have appropriate , to make one's own ...
... Shakespeare , Milton , are all proper nouns . The word proper comes from the Latin proprius , one's own . Hence a proper noun is , in relation to one person , one's own name . From the same word we have appropriate , to make one's own ...
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... Shakespeare , he and she were used as nouns . find such phrases as " The proudest he , " " The fairest she , " " That not impossible she . " III . GENDER INDICATED BY DIFFERENT WORDS . 15. The use of different words for the masculine ...
... Shakespeare , he and she were used as nouns . find such phrases as " The proudest he , " " The fairest she , " " That not impossible she . " III . GENDER INDICATED BY DIFFERENT WORDS . 15. The use of different words for the masculine ...
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... Shakespeare has the phrase " beef - witted " = with no more sense than an ox . ne . - 21. Second Mode . The plural is formed by adding en or Thus we have oxen , children , brethren , and kine . ( i ) Children is a double plural . The ...
... Shakespeare has the phrase " beef - witted " = with no more sense than an ox . ne . - 21. Second Mode . The plural is formed by adding en or Thus we have oxen , children , brethren , and kine . ( i ) Children is a double plural . The ...
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... ( Shakespeare , " Taming of the Shrew , " I. ii . 31. ) ( 7 ) Methought I heard a cry ! ( = Meseems . ) ( 8 ) Hand me the salt , if you please . Some grammarians prefer to call this the Case of the Indirect Object ; but the term will ...
... ( Shakespeare , " Taming of the Shrew , " I. ii . 31. ) ( 7 ) Methought I heard a cry ! ( = Meseems . ) ( 8 ) Hand me the salt , if you please . Some grammarians prefer to call this the Case of the Indirect Object ; but the term will ...
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... Shakespeare has such phrases as I whipt me ; I disrobed me ; I have learned me . in modern English , chiefly in poetry , we have : He sat him down ; Get thee hence ! etc. ( iii ) Compounds : I bethought myself ; He wronged himself ; etc ...
... Shakespeare has such phrases as I whipt me ; I disrobed me ; I have learned me . in modern English , chiefly in poetry , we have : He sat him down ; Get thee hence ! etc. ( iii ) Compounds : I bethought myself ; He wronged himself ; etc ...
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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!