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abbreviation action added adjective or noun adjunct adverb qualifying adverb-clause adverbial objective antecedent appositive adjective assertion attributive adjective auxiliary belonging bird called case-form co-ordinate combination complete complex sentences compound conjunctions connecting words construction defined dependent clause derived described direct object ellipsis English equivalent especially example exclamatory expressed factitive genitive give given grammar hence horse implies inflection interjections interrogative interrogative words intransitive irregular irregular verbs joined kind language manner meaning mode nominative noun or pronoun nouns and adjectives objective predicate Old conjugation omitted parsing passive participle past participle person singular plural possessive predicate adjective preposition present participle pronominal adjective qualify a verb qualifying a noun relation relative relative pronoun seen shines signify simple sentences sometimes speak speech stand subjunctive substantive substantive-clause suffix tence thee third person thou tion tive transitive verbs usually verbal forms
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Стр. 203 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Стр. 203 - Oh, but for one short hour! A respite however brief! No blessed leisure for Love or Hope, But only time for Grief! A little weeping would ease my heart, But in their briny bed My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread!
Стр. 184 - The country rings around with loud alarms, And raw in fields the rude militia swarms; Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand...
Стр. 186 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Стр. 97 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Стр. 206 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Стр. 184 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song...
Стр. 210 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition?
Стр. 206 - The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven, is a pretty reason.
Стр. 225 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.