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.

   “Or as a moat defensive to a house
    Against the envy of less happier lands.”—­Shakspeare.

    “A dreadful quiet felt, and worser far
    Than arms, a sullen interval of war.”—­Dryden.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“It breaks forth in its most energetick, impassioned, and highest strain.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 66.  “He has fallen into the most gross and vilest sort of railing.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 261.  “To receive that more general and higher instruction which the public affords.”—­District School, p. 281.  “If the best things have the perfectest and best operations.”—­HOOKER:  Joh.  Dict. “It became the plainest and most elegant, the most splendid and richest, of all languages.”—­See Bucke’s Gram., p. 140.  “But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses, is, to mark the divisions of the sense.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 331; Murray’s Gram., 248.  “That every thing belonging to ourselves is the perfectest and the best.”—­Clarkson’s Prize Essay, p. 189.  “And to instruct their pupils in the most thorough and best manner.”—­Report of a School Committee.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­ADJECTIVES SUPERADDED.

“The Father is figured out as an old venerable man.”—­Dr. Brownlee’s Controversy.  “There never was exhibited such another masterpiece of ghostly assurance.”—­Id. “After the three first sentences, the question is entirely lost.”—­Spect., No, 476.  “The four last parts of speech are commonly called particles.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 14.  “The two last chapters will not be found deficient in this respect.”—­Student’s Manual, p. 6.  “Write upon your slates a list of the ten first nouns.”—­Abbott’s Teacher, p. 85.  “We have a few remains of other two Greek poets in the pastoral style, Moschus and Bion.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 393.  “The nine first chapters of the book of Proverbs are highly poetical.”—­Ib., p. 417.  “For of these five heads, only the two first have any particular relation to the sublime.”—­Ib., p. 35.  “The resembling sounds of the two last syllables give a ludicrous air to the whole.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 69.  “The three last are arbitrary.”—­Ib., p. 72.  “But in the phrase ‘She hangs the curtains,’ the verb hangs is a transitive active verb.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 30.  “If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of transitive or intransitive active, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly understood.”—­Ib., 15th Ed., p. 30.  “These two last lines have an embarrassing construction.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 160.  “God was provoked to drown them all, but Noah and other seven persons.”—­Wood’s Dict., ii, 129.  “The six first books of the AEneid are extremely beautiful.”—­Formey’s

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