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... verse , to represent past events as present ; to intro- duce them to the view of the reader or hearer , as having a present existence . Hence the frequent use of the pres- ent tense for the future , by the historian , the poet and the ...
... verse , to represent past events as present ; to intro- duce them to the view of the reader or hearer , as having a present existence . Hence the frequent use of the pres- ent tense for the future , by the historian , the poet and the ...
Page 104
... verse , and in music , intolerable . Were it possible to banish every sound of this kind from the language , the change would be desirable . At any rate , when people in general have laid aside any of these sounds , writers , who value ...
... verse , and in music , intolerable . Were it possible to banish every sound of this kind from the language , the change would be desirable . At any rate , when people in general have laid aside any of these sounds , writers , who value ...
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... prose the rhetorical sublimity of verse . It is giving the verb its full effect and at the same time , attach ny the attribute to that effect . The attributes thus connected with verbs may easily be distinguished PRACTICAL GRAMMAR . 147.
... prose the rhetorical sublimity of verse . It is giving the verb its full effect and at the same time , attach ny the attribute to that effect . The attributes thus connected with verbs may easily be distinguished PRACTICAL GRAMMAR . 147.
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... verse , a greater license of transposition is used , than in prose , and names are often placed before the govern- ing verb . " But through the heart Should jealousy its venom once diffuse . " Thomson . " She with extended arms his aid ...
... verse , a greater license of transposition is used , than in prose , and names are often placed before the govern- ing verb . " But through the heart Should jealousy its venom once diffuse . " Thomson . " She with extended arms his aid ...
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... verses by heart against I see you . " Chesterfield Let . " After having made me believe that I possessed a share your affection . " Pope . Let . 7 . " Ambition , envy , - -will take up our minds , without we can possess ourselves with ...
... verses by heart against I see you . " Chesterfield Let . " After having made me believe that I possessed a share your affection . " Pope . Let . 7 . " Ambition , envy , - -will take up our minds , without we can possess ourselves with ...
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accent action adjectives admit adverb affirmation Amphibrach Anarch articulation attri attribute authors auxiliary called character clause comma common connective considered construction definitive denotes discourse distinct English English language example express fact foot future tense gender Grammar hath Hence Hist ideas idiom indefinite Indicative Mode inflections John joined language Latin letters Locke Lord loved Ye Lowth Lusiad manner modifiers n be loved n been loved NOAH WEBSTER nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original Paley participle passage Past Tense pause Perfect Tense phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefixed preposition present tense principles Prior-past pronoun qualities Rambler represents Rhet RULE Saxon semicolon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables Tacitus tence thine things third person tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
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Page 186 - But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young! Nor own your fathers hav.e been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Page 172 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.