The rudiments of English grammar1799 |
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adjective ADVERBS agent or fubject APOCOPE auxiliary verbs befide beneath bleffings boaſt Catalogue of irregular celeſtial CHAPTER confin'd CONJUNCTIONS deferving defire degrees of compariſon delight difcernment doft double &c ELLIPSIS ENGLISH GRAMMAR eſteemed Ev'n ev'ry expreffed expreſſed fame cafe fecret fenate fenfe fentence fhall fhines fhut fingular number firſt fix TENSES fmiling fome fometimes ftand fubftantives fuch fupplied fwell Genders happineſs hath heart himſelf Infinitive Mode inflected throughout INTERJECTIONS irregular Verbs itſelf juft letter or fyllable Maſculine MODE has fix modes and tenfes moſt muft muſt Neuter nevertheleſs noun or pronoun o'er objective caſe paffion Part.paft Part.pr PARTICIPLE paſt Perfect PLUPERFECT Plural Prefent PREPOSITIONS PRETER Preterite pride purſue put abfolutely raiſe reaſon rife ſecond ſelect ſhake ſhall ſhe ſhould ſpeak ſpin SUBJUNCTIVE teach tence tenſe thee theſe thoſe thouſand throughout the modes underſtanding underſtood unleſs uſed Verbs which double vowels WALSALL waſte whofe wiſh word
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Página 50 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 49 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Página 57 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 56 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Página 53 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 57 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 56 - Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove. Now drooping, woeful wan, like one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in hopeless love.
Página 56 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires ; Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who mindful of th...
Página 53 - Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy...