The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

   “The sun has ris’n, and gone to bed. 
    Just as if Partridge were not dead.”—­Swift cor.

    “And, though no marriage words are spoken,
    They part not till the ring is broken.”—­Swift cor.

LESSON II.—­REGULARS.

“When the word is stripped of all the terminations.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “Forgive him, Tom; his head is cracked.”—­Swift cor. “For ’tis the sport, to have the engineer hoised (or hoisted) with his own petar.”—­Shak. cor. “As great as they are, I was nursed by their mother.”—­Swift cor. “If he should now be cried down since his change.”—­Id.  “Dipped over head and ears—­in debt.”—­Id. “We see the nation’s credit cracked.”—­Id. “Because they find their pockets picked.”—­Id. “O what a pleasure mixed with pain!”—­Id. “And only with her brother linked.”—­Id. “Because he ne’er a thought allowed, That might not be confessed.”—­Id. “My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixed.”—­Id. “The observations annexed to them will be intelligible.”—­Phil.  Mus. cor. “Those eyes are always fixed on the general principles.”—­Id. “Laborious conjectures will be banished from our commentaries.”—­Id. “Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was reestablished, in his stead.”—­Id. “A Roman who was attached to Augustus.”—­Id. “Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talked about two such.”—­Id. “And the reformers of language have generally rushed on.”—­Id. “Three centuries and a half had then elapsed since the date,”—­Ib. “Of such criteria, as has been remarked already, there is an abundance.”—­Id. “The English have surpassed every other nation in their services.”—­Id. “The party addressed is next in dignity to the speaker.”—­Harris cor. “To which we are many times helped.”—­W.  Walker cor. “But for him, I should have looked well enough to myself.”—­Id. “Why are you vexed, Lady? why do frown?”—­Milton cor. “Obtruding false rules pranked in reason’s garb.”—­Id. “But, like David equipped in Saul’s armour, it is encumbered and oppressed.”—­Campbell cor.

   “And when their merchants are blown up, and cracked,
    Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wrecked.”—­Butler cor.

LESSON III.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

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