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 o into _~in=es_, making the plural vertig~in=es:”  [not so, in English.]—­Churchill cor.Noctambulo, [in Latin,] changes the o into _=on=es_, making the plural noctambul=on=es:”  [not so in English.]—­Id. “What shall we say of noctambuloes? It is the regular English plural.”—­G.  Brown.  “In the curious fretwork of rocks and grottoes.”—­Blair cor.Wharf makes the plural wharfs, according to the best usage.”—­G.  Brown.  “A few cents’ worth of macaroni supplies all their wants.”—­Balbi cor. “C sounds hard, like k, at the end of a word or syllable.”—­Blair cor. “By which the virtuosoes try The magnitude of every lie.”—­Butler cor.Quartoes, octavoes, shape the lessening pyre.”—­Pope cor. “Perching within square royal roofs”—­Sidney cor.Similes should, even in poetry, be used with moderation.”—­Dr. Blair cor.Similes should never be taken from low or mean objects.”—­Id. “It were certainly better to say, ‘The House of Lords,’ than, ‘The Lords’ House.’”—­Murray cor. “Read your answers. Units’ figure?  ‘Five.’ Tens’?  ‘Six.’ Hundreds’?  ‘Seven.’”—­Abbott cor. “Alexander conquered Darius’s army.”—­Kirkham cor. “Three days’ time was requisite, to prepare matters.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “So we say, that Cicero’s style and Sallust’s were not one; nor Caesar’s and Livy’s; nor Homer’s and Hesiod’s; nor Herodotus’s and Thucydides’s; nor Euripides’s and Aristophanes’s; nor Erasmus’s and Budaeus’s.”—­Puttenham cor. “LEX (i.e., legs, a law,) is no other than our ancestors’ past participle loeg, laid down”—­Tooke cor. “Achaia’s sons at Ilium slain for the Atridoe’s sake.”—­Cowper cor. “The corpses of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly.”—­Addison cor.

   “Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear;
    And spotted corpses load the frequent bier.”—­Dryden cor.

CHAPTER IV.—­ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF COMPARISON, &c.

LESSON I.—­DEGREES.

“I have the real excuse of the most honest sort of bankrupts.”—­Cowley corrected.  “The most honourable part of talk, is, to give the occasion.”—­Bacon cor. “To give him one of the most modest of his own proverbs.”—­Barclay cor. “Our language is now, certainly, more proper and more natural, than it was formerly.”—­Burnet cor. “Which will be of the greatest and most frequent use to him in the world.”—­Locke cor. “The same is notified in the most considerable places in the diocese.”—­Whitgift

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