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 New-Testament.”—­Ib., p. 74.  “The little boy was bare headed.”—­Red Book, p. 36.  “The man, being a little short sighted, did not immediately know him.”—­Ib., p. 40.  “Picture frames are gilt with gold.”—­Ib., p. 44.  “The park keeper killed one of the deer.”—­Ib., p. 44.  “The fox was killed near the brick kiln.”—­Ib., p. 46.  “Here comes Esther, with her milk pail.”—­Ib., p. 50.  “The cabinet maker would not tell us.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “A fine thorn hedge extended along the edge of the hill.”—­Ib., p. 65.  “If their private interests should be ever so little affected.”—­Ib., p. 73.  “Unios are fresh water shells, vulgarly called fresh water clams.”—­Ib., p. 102.

   “Did not each poet mourn his luckless doom,
    Jostled by pedants out of elbow room.”—­Lloyd, p. 163.

LESSON III.—­MIXED.

“The captive hovers a-while upon the sad remains.”—­PRIOR:  in Johnson’s Dict., w.  Hover. “Constantia saw that the hand writing agreed with the contents of the letter.”—­ADDISON:  ib., w.  Hand.  “They have put me in a silk night-gown, and a gaudy fool’s cap.”—­ID.:  ib., w.  Nightgown.  “Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull’d ninnyhammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?”—­ARBUTHNOT:  ib., w.  Ninnyhammer.  “A noble, that is, six, shillings and eightpence, is, and usually hath been paid.”—­BACON:  ib., w.  Noble.  “The king of birds thick feather’d and with full-summed wings, fastened his talons east and west.”—­HOWELL:  ib., w.  Full-summed.  “To morrow.  This is an idiom of the same kind, supposing morrow to mean originally morning:  as, to night, to day.”—­Johnson’s Dict., 4to.  “To-day goes away and to-morrow comes.”—­Id., ib., w.  Go, No. 70.  “Young children, who are try’d in Go carts, to keep their steps from sliding.”—­PRIOR:  ib., w.  Go-cart.  “Which, followed well, would demonstrate them but goers backward.”—­SHAK.:  _ ib., w.  Goer_.  “Heaven’s golden winged herald late he saw, to a poor Galilean virgin sent.”—­CRASHAW:  ib., w.  Golden.  “My penthouse eye-brows and my shaggy beard offend your sight.”—­DRYDEN:  ib., w.  Penthouse.  “The hungry lion would fain have been dealing with good horse-flesh.”—­ L’ESTRANGE:  ib., w.  Nag.  “A broad brimmed hat ensconced each careful head.”—­Snelling’s Gift, p. 63.  “With harsh vibrations of his three stringed lute.”—­Ib., p. 42.  “They magnify a hundred fold an author’s merit.”—­Ib., p. 14.  “I’ll nail them fast to some oft opened door.”—­Ib., p. 10.  “Glossed over only with a saint-like show, still thou art bound to vice.”—­DRYDEN:  in Johnson’s Dict., w.  Gloss.  “Take of aqua-fortis two ounces, of quick-silver two drachms.”—­BACON:  ib., w.  Charge.  “This rainbow never appears but when it rains in the sun-shine.”—­NEWTON:  ib., w.  Rainbow.

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