Longmans' School GrammarLongmans, Green, and Company, 1899 - 264 pages |
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Abstract Noun Adjective Adjective Clause Adjuncts Adverbial Clause baby Barbara Frietchie bassoon birds brother child Cloth Conjunction Conjunctive Adverbs Edward English examples Exercise father Feminine following sentences pick garden Gender Gerund girl Give Grammar grammatical gender hear horse IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect Indicative Mood Infinitive Mood Introduction and Notes Jack James John joining words kind king lady Latin live Longmans Mary Masculine mother Notes for Teachers Noun Clause Noun or Pronoun o'er Parse Perfect Continuous Perfect Participle PERFECT TENSE person or thing Plural Number Predicate Preposition PRESENT INDEFINITE TENSE printed in italics Read Relative Pronoun Roxbury Latin School School sing Singular Number sister soldier speaking Subject Subjunctive Mood Suffixes tell thee thing named Thou Transitive Verbs tree Verbs of Incomplete Verbs to show Voice walk William wind window word joined words which show write
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Page 170 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 123 - SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 218 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 93 - His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— If he may know which way to go; For she guides him smooth or grim. See, brother, see! how graciously She looketh down on him.
Page 183 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 21 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on : 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the " Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 222 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 4 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin! Here's the house!
Page 28 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry. For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead ; •And he, neglected and oppressed, Wished to be with them, and at rest.
Page 37 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.