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adjective adverbs agree agreeable antecedent apostrophe apposition arrived beautiful better bishop blessings brother Cæsar called cises clauses conjunction copula crowded definite article doubt Edition enemy esteem Exer expected expressed favour fear finite verb folly frequently genitive govern the accusative happy honour hope horse Iliad improved infinitive infinitive mood Julius Cæsar king knowledge labour lative learned lest live Lord mankind Mayor means ment mind mood nature neuter verb never nominative NOMINATIVE ABSOLUTE noun object participle passive verb perfection perly Plato pleasure poet preposition present preserved Price pronoun proper relative Relative clauses require a plural riches RULE II RULE VIII sake scholar sense sentence signifies singular number sister sometimes improperly subjunctive substantive SYNTAX temper tenses thee thing Thou art tion tive UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD vice virtue whence whole wish words yesterday youth
Popular passages
Page 144 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers, which appeared to .have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.
Page 110 - To see so many to make so little conscience of so great a sin." " It cannot but be a delightful spectacle to God and angels, to see a young person, besieged by powerful temptations on every side, to acquit himself gloriously, and resolutely to hold out against the most...
Page 136 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Page 64 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 33 - The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,— This is no flattery: these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 144 - As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise, he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices ; he sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of the primrose, eldest daughter of the spring: all his senses were gratified, and all care was banished from his heart.
Page 136 - The drift of all his sermons was to prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than him, and whose shoes he was not worthy to bear.
Page 140 - The main of life is, indeed, composed of small incidents and petty occurrences ; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence ; of insect vexations which sting us and fly away, impertinences which buzz a while about us, and are heard no more ; of meteorous pleasures which dance before us and are dissipated ; of compliments which glide off the soul like other music, and are forgotten by him that gave and him that received them.
Page 77 - For when a man declares in autumn, when he is eating them, or in spring, when there are none, that he loves grapes...