MODEL FOR PARSING O, let me live. "O" is an interjection; it denotes some strong emotion. XXII. — “An interjection has no dependence upon other words." CLXIX. EXERCISES Rule Parse all the words in the following sentences:· 1. Ha! laughest thou? 2. Heigh! sirs, what a noise you make here. 3. Huzza ! huzza! long live Lord Robin! 4. Hah! it is a sight to freeze one. 5. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame which say unto me, Aha! aha! 6. Oh, that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! 7. Alas! all earthly good still blends itself with home! 8. Tush! tush! man, I made no reference to you. 9. Hark! what nearer war-drum shakes the gale ? 10. Soft! I did but dream! 11. What! old acquaintance! could not all this flesh Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell! I could have better spared a better man. - SHAKESPEARE. CLXX. MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES Analyze and diagram the following sentences and parse each word: 1. A mercenary informer knows no distinction. 2. I send you here a sort of allegory. 3. Our island home is far beyond the sea. 4. Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the cords with might. 5. Your If is the only peace maker: much virtue in If. 6. He is very prodigal of his ohs and ahs. 7. He looked upward at the rugged heights that towered above him in the gloom. 8. He possessed that rare union of reason, simplicity, and vehemence, which formed the prince of 9. Mark well my fall, and that that ruined me. 10. The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels. TENNYSON. II. His qualities were so happily blended, that the result was a great and perfect whole. 12. There is no joy but calm. 13. I orators. SPEARE. -SHAKE must be cruel, only to be kind. heaviness? 15. Now blessings light on him that first invented sleep: 14. Why are we weighed upon with TENNYSON. MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES - 165 it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak. - CERVANTES. 16. Many a morning on the moorlands did we hear the copses 1ing. 17. He stretched out his right hand at these words, and laid it gently on the boy's head. - DICKENS. 18. He acted ever as if his country's welfare, and that alone, was the moving spirit. 19. The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients. Whilst an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we estimate them by his best. JOHNSON. 20. I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. 21. As his authority was undisputed, so it required no jealous precautions, no rigorous severity. 22. To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes men poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers, or both. 24. But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. COWPER. 25. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. 26. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, POPE. Whose holy dust was scattered long ago. BYRON. 27. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the sleeping dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? — Gray. 28. Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscure wings athwart the noon, And hooting at the glorious sun in heaven, Cries out "Where is it?" - Coleridge. 29. Dry clank'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right 30. A thing of beauty is a joy forever; 'TENNYSON. A shadow, like an angel with bright hair 32. There are things of which I may not speak: There are dreams that cannot die : -SHAKESPEARE. There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor upon the cheek, And a mist before the eye. And the words of that fatal song Come over me like a chill: "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." 33. These ages have no memory, but they left A record in the desert- columns strown Were hewn into a city streets that spread – LONGFELLOW. In the dark earth, where never breath has blown BRYANT, PART IV COMPLETE SYNTAX CLXXI. CLASSIFICATION OF SENTENCES Sentences are classified according to form and according to use. According to form, sentences are simple, complex, or compound. Define and give an example of each. According to use, sentences are declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. Define and give an example of each. MODELS FOR CLASSIFICATION The nights are tranquil. This is a sentence; it is an assemblage of words making complete sense: declarative; it is used to affirm something: simple; it consists of a single proposition. Shall I return the book which you lent me? This is a sentence; interrogative; it is used to ask a question: complex; it is composed of a principal and a subordinate proposition: "Shall I return the book" is the principal proposition, and "which you lent me," the subordinate, limiting "book." "Which," the connective, is a relative pronoun. She counseled him, that when he arose in the morning, he should beat them without mercy. BUNYAN. This is a sentence; declarative; complex; "She counseled him" is the principal proposition; "that he should beat them without mercy" the first subordinate, modifying "counseled"; and "when he arose in the morning," the second subordinate, modifying "beat." "That” and "when" are the connectives; "that" is a subordinate conjunction, and "when" is a conjunctive adverb. Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope. - JOHNSON. This is a sentence; declarative; compound; it is composed of two propositions, joined by a coördinate connective: "Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden" is the first member, and "Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope" is the second. "But,” the connective, is a coördinate conjunction. CLXXII. EXERCISES Classify the following sentences: 66 -WHITTIER. 1. Thy feet are fetterless. 2. Level spread the lake before him. 3. He waved his broad felt hat for silence. 4. A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers. 5. It sank from sight before it set. 6. Ye softening dews, ye tender showers, descend! 7. None will flatter the poor. 8. Ye are the things that tower. 9. The house was wrapped in flames. 10. Hope and fear are the bane of human life. II. The village all declared how much he knew. GOLDSMITH. 12. He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul. 13. Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? 14. How dreadful is this place, for God is here! 15. He dares not touch a hair of Catiline. 16. What can compensate for the loss of character? 17. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 18. Time slept on flowers, and lent his glass to Hope. 19. All were sealed with the seal which is never to be broken till the great day! 20. O God, we are but leaves on thy stream, clouds in thy sky. 21. Talk to the point, and stop when you have |