New Grammar of the English TongueBlackwood, 1887 - Всего страниц: 252 |
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... becomes more and more felt ; and hence all civilised nations have , in course of time , slowly and with great difficulty made for themselves a set of signs , by the aid of which the sounds are , as it were , indicated upon paper . But ...
... becomes more and more felt ; and hence all civilised nations have , in course of time , slowly and with great difficulty made for themselves a set of signs , by the aid of which the sounds are , as it were , indicated upon paper . But ...
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... becomes harder as it grows older ; it loses old words and takes on new - as a tree loses old leaves , and clothes itself in new leaves at the coming of every new spring . But we are not at present going to trace the growth of the ...
... becomes harder as it grows older ; it loses old words and takes on new - as a tree loses old leaves , and clothes itself in new leaves at the coming of every new spring . But we are not at present going to trace the growth of the ...
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... becomes a v . If we take an ip and breathe through it , it becomes an if — the p becomes an f . Hence v and f are called spirant labials . The following is a complete TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS . MUTES . SPIRANTS . FLAT SHARP FLAT SHARP ...
... becomes a v . If we take an ip and breathe through it , it becomes an if — the p becomes an f . Hence v and f are called spirant labials . The following is a complete TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS . MUTES . SPIRANTS . FLAT SHARP FLAT SHARP ...
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... . verbum , a word . It is so called because it is the word in a sentence . If we leave of a sentence , all the other words become mere nonsense . Thus we can say , " I saw him cross the bridge . 34 GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . VERBS.
... . verbum , a word . It is so called because it is the word in a sentence . If we leave of a sentence , all the other words become mere nonsense . Thus we can say , " I saw him cross the bridge . 34 GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . VERBS.
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... become very common in English . Thus we have , " I came to see you ; " A house to let . " " To hear him ( = on hearing him ) talk , you would think he was worth millions . " ( iv ) We must be careful to distinguish between ( a ) the ...
... become very common in English . Thus we have , " I came to see you ; " A house to let . " " To hear him ( = on hearing him ) talk , you would think he was worth millions . " ( iv ) We must be careful to distinguish between ( a ) the ...
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Стр. 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...
Стр. 163 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 165 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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!