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... Infinitive . The Indicative mood simply asserts the action as a matter of fact ; as , I go , they spared him . The Imperative mood asserts the action in the form of a command or entreaty ; as , go ; spare me . The Subjunctive mood ...
... Infinitive . The Indicative mood simply asserts the action as a matter of fact ; as , I go , they spared him . The Imperative mood asserts the action in the form of a command or entreaty ; as , go ; spare me . The Subjunctive mood ...
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Robert Frederick Brewer. certain auxiliaries joined to the infinitive of the principal verb , it belongs to syntax rather than etymology ; e . g . , I can go the auxiliary can joined to the infinitive go . * = 3. Tense , or time , is ...
Robert Frederick Brewer. certain auxiliaries joined to the infinitive of the principal verb , it belongs to syntax rather than etymology ; e . g . , I can go the auxiliary can joined to the infinitive go . * = 3. Tense , or time , is ...
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... infinitive , and sometimes of the imperfect participle . What therefore is often called the infinitive mood of a verb is the gerund , to being no distinctive mark of the former , but nearly always of the latter . Formerly there was a ...
... infinitive , and sometimes of the imperfect participle . What therefore is often called the infinitive mood of a verb is the gerund , to being no distinctive mark of the former , but nearly always of the latter . Formerly there was a ...
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... infinitives of other verbs to express the power , likelihood , or obligation of doing the act . They are ... infinitive , present , after " Should . " Should Verb intrans . , potential , past , 3rd per . sing . agreeing with ...
... infinitives of other verbs to express the power , likelihood , or obligation of doing the act . They are ... infinitive , present , after " Should . " Should Verb intrans . , potential , past , 3rd per . sing . agreeing with ...
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... ) , he write ( subj . ) . In the verb be , above all others , we see the distinction between the two moods . Next , it has a difference in meaning , and , as Infinitive . ( To ) be . Gerund . To CONJUGATION OF THE VERB . 23.
... ) , he write ( subj . ) . In the verb be , above all others , we see the distinction between the two moods . Next , it has a difference in meaning , and , as Infinitive . ( To ) be . Gerund . To CONJUGATION OF THE VERB . 23.
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Seite 78 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Seite 78 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty : This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Seite 69 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Seite 53 - Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar! Within a window'd niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...
Seite 69 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Seite 76 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Seite 69 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Seite 77 - Night, of clustering gems A star or two just twinkling on thy brow, Suffices thee ; save that the moon is thine No less...
Seite 77 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Seite 53 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.