An Initiatory English Grammar for Junior Classes |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action expressed Adjectives apple apply the Rules bird sings brave brother Cæsar change of form Conjunctions DEFINITION II.-When denotes EXAMPLES.-I EXAMPLES.-John father fell feminine flowers following Exer following Exercise formed by adding FUTURE PERFECT TENSE FUTURE TENSE gender Grammar heart horse runs IMPERATIVE MOOD Indicative Mood INFINITIVE MOOD inflection or change James John gave king knife last Lesson learns his lesson LESSON VII loved Mary masculine moon Nominative object Parse the words Past Participle PAST PERFECT TENSE PAST TENSE pony Possessive POTENTIAL MOOD Preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE Queen Relative Pronouns river sentence shalt or wilt shows the relation simply means singular number snow soldiers stood struck SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD sweet Tell the number Tell the Person thee things third person Thou hast Thou mightst Thou shalt to-morrow told Transitive Verb tree wind Write yesterday
Passagens conhecidas
Página 67 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 68 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead...
Página 66 - That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad ; Her eyes were fair, and very fair; •*—Her beauty made me glad. 22 " Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?" " How many ? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me.
Página 40 - I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Página 37 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Página 38 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Página 61 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Página 30 - It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds, That ope in the month of May. The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South. Then up and spake an old...
Página 65 - Then leaping on his feet upright, Some moody turns he took, — Now up the mead, then down the mead, And past a shady nook, — And, lo! he saw a little boy That pored upon a book.
Página 27 - THERE is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Race after race their honours yield, They flourish and decline. But this small flower, to Nature dear, While moons and stars their courses run, Wreathes the whole circle of the year, Companion of the Sun. It smiles upon the lap of May, To sultry August spreads its charms, Lights pale October on his way,...