Parsing Simplified; An Introduction and Companion to All Grammars Consisting of Short and Easy Rules (with Parsing Lessons to Each), Whereby Very ... of the Several Elementary Parts of S - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1865 Excerpt: ... LESSON 68. MISCELLANEOUS PARSING EXERCISES ON THE WHOLE. Censure is the tax which a man pays the public for being eminent. Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving winds expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air. The horse being troubled with a fly on his nose, the cabman humanely employed his leisure in lashing him about the head, on the counter-irritation system. Sweet are the joys of home, And pure as sweet; for they Like dews of morn and evening come To make and close the day. In one cottage the master of the house, a great fat man, was sitting at his dinner. Hot roasted duck and cauliflowers were before him, while his wife, a pale starved-looking soul, was standing behind his chair waiting upon him, and his children were huddled together in a corner at a distance. So sleep the good, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest. When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She then shall deck a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. Industry leads to independence; economy, to plenty. As at thy birth, a frail unconscious child, Weeping thou lay'st, while all around thee smiled, So when thou sinkest to thy eternal sleep, Sweet may'st thou smile while all around thee weep. The seeds, by which the several races of plants are propagated and continued, are always lodged in flowers or blossoms. Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing. The ignorant are more easily taught than the conceited. "Vords are like leaves, and where they most abound r-"Q ...

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