Sheldon's Advanced Language Lessons: Grammar and CompositionSheldon, 1895 - 376 páginas |
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Sheldon's Advanced Language Lessons: Grammar and Composition Sheldon and Company Visualização integral - 1895 |
Sheldon's Advanced Language Lessons: Grammar and Composition Sheldon and Company Visualização integral - 1895 |
Sheldon's Advanced Language Lessons: Grammar and Composition Sheldon and Company Visualização integral - 1895 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
adverb adverbial phrase anapestic antecedent apposition assert attributive complement auxiliary beautiful birds called comma completed COMPOSITION compound sentence conjunction connected dactylic declarative sentence denote element EMERSON English express flowers following sentences formed by annexing FUTURE PERFECT TENSE gender girl give grammatical predicate grammatical subject hear indicative mode infinitive interrogative intransitive language laughed LESSON letter live logical and grammatical logical predicate logical subject LONGFELLOW masculine meaning modified nominative noun or pronoun objective complement Parse passive past participle past tense person and number personal pronouns plural number poet possessive preposition PRESENT PERFECT TENSE PRESENT TENSE principal sentence quotation Rewrite the following second sentence SHAKESPEARE simple predicate sing singular number speech Study carefully subjunctive subordinate clause sweet syllables tell tences thee thine things Thou thought transitive verb tree trochaic trochees WHITTIER wind word Write sentences Write ten sentences
Passagens conhecidas
Página 368 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 368 - 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-labor, light denied ?
Página 311 - ... CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare ; Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl, — Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Página 138 - It was one of those spacious farm-houses with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming a piazza. along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river. Benches were built along the sides for summer use, and a great spinning-wheel at one end and a churn at the other showed the various uses...
Página 196 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Página 367 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler!
Página 242 - And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot...
Página 367 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Página 311 - Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: — Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
Página 238 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.