Amazed, confused, he found his power expired. The daughter of a hundred earls, You are not one to be desired. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, They all, with one consent, began to make excuse. Enthusiastically attached to the name of liberty, these historians troubled themselves little about its definition. Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. Volumed, and vast, and rolling far, The cloud enveloped Scotland's war. 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. XVII. Adverbs: §§ 380-3. The ordinary constructions of the adverb have been abundantly exemplified in the exercises already given. But close around the body no cries were heard. The mighty wreck lay right athwart the stream. Here was the chair of state, having directly over it a rich canopy. The price of a virtuous woman is far above rubies. He is above, sir, changing his dress. The feast was over in Branksome tower. His father left him well off. My son is either married, or going to be so. I have forgot my part, and I am out. His right arm is bare; So is the blade of his scimitar. Out steps, with cautious foot and slow, I pray thee by the gods above. On my way hither, I saw her come forth. It is the signal of our friends within. My tongue cannot impart My almost drunkenness of heart. Our then dictator saw him fight. Use a little wine for thine often infirmities. XVIII. Possessive Case and Possessives: §§ 384-9. The earth is the Lord's. Thou art freedom's now, and fame's. That is madam Lucy, my master's mistress's maid. I don't choose a hornet's nest about my ears. The lieutenant's last day's march is over: The power which brought you here hath made you mine. By England's king and Scotland's queen. I knew myself only as his, his daughter, his the mighty. Winter's rude tempests are gathering now. Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. I will listen to your song, Soft as the soft complaining nightingale's. I was taken to a new toy of his and the squire's, which he termed the falconry. Letters came last night to a dear friend of the good duke of York's. This toil of ours should be a work of thine. XIX. Adverbial Objective and §§ 390-7. Nominative Absolute: The following sentence will furnish examples of parsing : he waited an hour, staff in hand. In this sentence, the nouns hour and staff are to be described as hitherto, in regard to kind and form; and their construction is to be defined in some such way as this hour is an adverbial objective, added to the verb waited to point out how long the waiting was; staff is in the nominative absolute, being used along with its adjunct in hand to express a circumstance accompanying the act of waiting as if it were "he waited with a staff in his hand." Cowards die many times before their deaths. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house. This day will I begin to magnify thee. Five times every year he was to be exposed in the pillory. Something wicked this way comes. Seamen, with the self-same gale, Will several different courses sail. I was born Not three hours' travel from this very place. One morn, a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood, disconsolate. From morn Till noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, The last impossible, he fears the first. The rest must perish, their great leader slain. He left my side, A summer bloom on his fair cheeks, a smile There she stands, An empty urn within her withered hands. Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The foe and the stranger will tread o'er his head, Fast as shaft can fly, Blood-shot his eye, his nostrils spread, Lord Marmion's steed rushed by. All loose her negligent attire, All loose her golden hair, Hung Margaret o'er her slaughtered sire. Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, The ruffian who, with ghostly glide, Dagger in hand, steals close to your bedside. XX. Prepositional Phrases: §§ 398-404. How to parse the preposition and its object as separate words has been already abundantly illustrated in previous exercises. The definition of the two together as a phrase has now to be added ; and the construction of the phrase is to be stated, in the same manner as that of the simple part of speech to which the phrase is equivalent. A few additional examples for practice are given here. And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul. There was shedding of blood and rending of hair. Why to frenzy fly for refuge from the blessings we possess? These are suggestions of a mind at ease. That is all the difference between them. All the triumphs of truth and genius over prejudice and power, in every country and in every age, have been the triumphs of Athens. By an exclusive attention to one class of phenomena, by an exclusive taste for one species of excellence, the human intellect was stunted. We take no note of time, but from its loss. We ne'er can reach the inward man, Or inward woman, from without. The time 'twixt six and now Must by us both be spent most preciously. Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie. Other ways exist besides through me. I chanced upon the prettiest oddest fantastical thing of a dream the other night. She shall be our messenger to this paltry knight. The gale had sighed itself to rest. CHAPTER XIV. COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCES. 411. We saw in the last chapter how a sentence, while still remaining simple, could be filled up and made more completely expressive of a thought by expanding its subject or its predicate, or both- that is, by adding to them a variety of modifying words or phrases, according to certain regular methods of combination. 412. But there are also ways by which we put together simple sentences, each having its own subject and predicate, and make of them a kind of whole, a longer and more intricate sentence. If we say, for example, they spoke and we listened; they spoke but we listened; they spoke while we listened; we listened while they spoke; we listened to what they spoke; there are in each case two subject-pronouns, they and we, and each of these has its own predicate-verb, spoke and listened. The assertions or statements are therefore two. But we have used between them certain connecting words, which so unite them that they may be looked upon as after all forming only one sentence. A sentence thus composed is no longer simple; it is either compound or complex (or both together). And we have in this chapter to see what such sentences are, and how they are made. 413. As (409) we do not like to make a simple sentence too long and intricate, so, on the other hand, we do not like |