1. There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into
     the man than blueberries.—­EMERSON.

     2.  Time was when field and watery cove With modulated echoes
     rang.—­WORDSWORTH.

HOW TO PARSE ADVERBS.

293.  In parsing adverbs, give—­

(1) The class, according to meaning and also use.

(2) Degree of comparison, if the word is compared.

(3) What word or word group it modifies.

Exercise.

Parse all the adverbs in the following sentences:—­

1.  Now the earth is so full that a drop overfills it.

2.  The higher we rise in the scale of being, the more certainly we quit the region of the brilliant eccentricities and dazzling contrasts which belong to a vulgar greatness.

3.  We sit in the warm shade and feel right well
     How the sap creeps up and blossoms swell.

4.  Meanwhile the Protestants believed somewhat doubtfully that he was theirs.

5.  Whence else could arise the bruises which I had received, but from my fall?

6.  We somehow greedily gobble down all stories in which the characters of our friends are chopped up.

7.  How carefully that blessed day is marked in their little calendars!

8.  But a few steps farther on, at the regular wine-shop, the Madonna is in great glory.

9.  The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

10.  It is the Cross that is first seen, and always, burning in the center of the temple.

11.  For the impracticable, however theoretically enticing, is always politically unwise.

12.  Whence come you? and whither are you bound?

13.  How comes it that the evil which men say spreads so widely and lasts so long, whilst our good kind words don’t seem somehow to take root and blossom?

14.  At these carousals Alexander drank deep.

15.  Perhaps he has been getting up a little architecture on the road from Florence.

16.  It is left you to find out why your ears are boxed.

17.  Thither we went, and sate down on the steps of a house.

18.  He could never fix which side of the garden walk would suit him best, but continually shifted.

19.  But now the wind rose again, and the stern drifted in toward the bank.

20.  He caught the scent of wild thyme in the air, and found room to wonder how it could have got there.

21.  They were soon launched on the princely bosom of the Thames, upon which the sun now shone forth.

22.  Why should we suppose that conscientious motives, feeble as they are constantly found to be in a good cause, should be omnipotent for evil?

24.  It was pretty bad after that, and but for Polly’s outdoor exercise, she would undoubtedly have succumbed.

CONJUNCTIONS.