An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

An English Grammar eBook

James Witt Sewell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 358 pages of information about An English Grammar.

     13.  Whatever power the law gave them would be enforced against
     me to the utmost.

     14.  O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers!

     15.  But there are more than you ever heard of who die of grief in
     this island of ours.

     16.  But amongst themselves is no voice nor sound.

     17.  For this did God send her a great reward.

     18.  The table was good; but that was exactly what Kate cared
     little about.

     19.  Who and what was Milton?  That is to say, what is the place
     which he fills in his own vernacular literature?

     20.  These hopes are mine as much as theirs.

21.  What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last
night like a corpse?

22.  I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity reiterated in a foreign form.

23.  What hand but would a garland cull
For thee who art so beautiful?

24.  And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work ’em woe.

25.  Whatever he knows and thinks, whatever in his apprehension is
worth doing, that let him communicate.

26.  Rip Van Winkle was one of those foolish, well-oiled
dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown,
whichever can be got with least thought or trouble.

27.  And will your mother pity me,
Who am a maiden most forlorn?

28.  They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well.

29.  I did remind thee of our own dear Lake,
By the old Hall which may be mine no more.

30.  He sate him down, and seized a pen, and traced
Words which I could not guess of.

31.  Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: 
Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now.

32.  Wild Spirit which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

33.  A smile of hers was like an act of grace.

34.  No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning.

35.  What can we see or acquire but what we are?

36.  He teaches who gives, and he learns who receives.

37.  We are by nature observers; that is our permanent state.

     38.  He knew not what to do, and so he read.

     39.  Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine.

     40.  The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of
     their constituents what they should say.

     41.  Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a
     certain sleep.

     42.  Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to
     those who live to the present.

     43.  I am sorry when my independence is invaded or when a gift
     comes from such as do not know my spirit.

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