Longer English Poems: With Notes, Philological and Explanatory, and an Introduction on the Teaching of EnglishJohn Wesley Hales |
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... verb is listen , is mourns , is cross in st . 4 , is chide in st . 6 , buried in st . 12 , & c . ? These and such ... verb is seen ? Is it correct to say " he has come " ? What is the tense in " he did go " ? What part of the verb is go ...
... verb is listen , is mourns , is cross in st . 4 , is chide in st . 6 , buried in st . 12 , & c . ? These and such ... verb is seen ? Is it correct to say " he has come " ? What is the tense in " he did go " ? What part of the verb is go ...
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... verb or verbless noun - what is the exact force of feat , of panoply , of sable , of sable shroud ( a phrase borrowed from Milton's Lycidas , 1. 22 ) , of buttress , of pale , of gifted , & c . A pupil's knowledge is probably not of ...
... verb or verbless noun - what is the exact force of feat , of panoply , of sable , of sable shroud ( a phrase borrowed from Milton's Lycidas , 1. 22 ) , of buttress , of pale , of gifted , & c . A pupil's knowledge is probably not of ...
Page 205
... verb afflict in this sentence has two objects , viz . whom and my bruyne . It has been proposed to read whose for whom ; but this is quite unnecessary . The latter object may be taken as in fact defining the former , and so standing in ...
... verb afflict in this sentence has two objects , viz . whom and my bruyne . It has been proposed to read whose for whom ; but this is quite unnecessary . The latter object may be taken as in fact defining the former , and so standing in ...
Page 208
... verb is impersonal . So , too , is to be explained " if you please . " At a later time these various verbs were used personally , and the nominative of the pronoun replaced the dative . 62. heavenly borne = heavenly by birth , and so in ...
... verb is impersonal . So , too , is to be explained " if you please . " At a later time these various verbs were used personally , and the nominative of the pronoun replaced the dative . 62. heavenly borne = heavenly by birth , and so in ...
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... verb won , “ Ang . - Sax . wunian ; Dan . wonen ; G. wohnen , to dwell , persist , continue " ( Wedgewood ) . So in Waller's lines : " The eagle's fate and mine are one , Which on the shaft that made him die Espy'd a feather of his own ...
... verb won , “ Ang . - Sax . wunian ; Dan . wonen ; G. wohnen , to dwell , persist , continue " ( Wedgewood ) . So in Waller's lines : " The eagle's fate and mine are one , Which on the shaft that made him die Espy'd a feather of his own ...
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Æneid ancient apud Assistant-Master Book called Cambridge century Chaucer Christ's College Classical cognate Comp Crown 8vo death Dict Dream Dryden Dunciad earth Edition Elegy ELEMENTARY English Extra fcap eyes Faerie Queene fcap Fellow of Trinity force French Globe 8vo GRAMMAR Gray Gray's Greek hath heart Henry Hist HISTORY Hymn Nat Il Penseroso Iliad Illustrations Introduction JOHN John's College Johnson Keats King King Lear L'Alleg L'Allegro ladies language late Fellow Latin LL.D London Lord Lycid Lycidas Master meaning meant Midsummer Night's Dream Milton nature night o'er Ovid Owens College Oxford Paradise Lost Penseroso perhaps phrase Piers Ploughman poem poet poetical poetry Pope PRIMER Professor revised scarcely School sense sentence Shakspere Shakspere's Shelley smile song soul speaks Spenser spirit stanza sweet tale thee thou thought Translated Trinity College University verb Virg word writes