Murby's English grammar and analysis, taught simultaneously |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
1st pers 2nd pers 3rd pers adjective adverb Analysis ANALYTICAL LESSON Analyze Exercises beautiful bring broke brought Cæsar called child Co-relative Comp complete Complex Sentence Conjunctions dist eith enlargement of subject EXCELSIOR READER extension father Futureperfect gender girl GRAMMAR hear horse Imperative Mood Indicative Mood Infinitive Mood James kind king leave letter live love 99 loved loving manner masc mother MURBY'S neith night nominative or subject noun or pronoun object parsed Passive Voice Past Ind Past Participle Past Tense Perfect Pluperfect Pluperfect Tense Plural Poss possessor Potential Mood predicate preposition pres Present Tense Principal Clause pron Relative Pronoun rose Rule Rule II Send simple personal pronoun simple sentences sing Singular sleep soldier speak spoke subj Subjunctive Mood Subord Subordinate Clause Syntax.-Rule tells Thou trans trees verbs move words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 108 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Seite 119 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Seite 119 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Seite 122 - 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.
Seite 120 - The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh, night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet, lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Seite 120 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Seite 108 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer : — Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all...
Seite 119 - Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man...
Seite 119 - ... some hidden stream ; And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums, Through the triumph of his dream. The forests, with their myriad tongues, Shouted of liberty ; And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud, With a voice so wild and free, That he started in his sleep and smiled At their tempestuous glee. He did not feel the driver's whip, Nor the burning heat of day ; For Death had illumined the Land of Sleep, And his lifeless body lay A worn-out fetter, that the soul Had broken and thrown away !...
Seite 122 - Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom.