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ACCIDENTAL Names action Adjectives of quality adverb Analysis Anglo-Saxon applied attribute Bible brother called changed Charles class-name Co-ordinative complement Complete Participle compound CONDITIONAL MOOD Conjugation conjunction consonant correlative dative Demonstrative Adjectives Demonstrative Pronouns denote Edinburgh Edition English Grammar English Language Exercise express feminine French Gender Genitive genus Gerund Greek Imperative IMPERATIVE MOOD implies Indefinite INDICATIVE MOOD individual Infinitive inflected Interjections intransitive intransitive verbs John king language Latin letter manner meaning Modified forms noun noun or pronoun Numeral Adjectives object PARSING passive voice Past Tense Personal Pronoun phrase Plur plural preceded prefix preposition Present Tense principal clause proper Class queen reference relation relative adverb Relative Pronouns RULE second person sentence significant simple Sing singular sometimes sound speak speech statement strike struck Subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD subordinate Substantive verb suffix superlative Surenne's syllable Syntax things thou transitive transitive verbs Vocabulary vowel words write
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Page 42 - The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among these hills...
Page 52 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 98 - Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 32 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 48 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he, returning, chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 15 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Page 98 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.
Page 97 - What matter where, if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he, Whom thunder hath made greater...
Page 51 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 42 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.