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Pagina 60
... lights , not light ( the singular , not the plural ) . The plural comes only with col- lectives denoting living beings : " The vast majority had never known a time when Queen Victoria had not been reigning over them . " ( The collective ...
... lights , not light ( the singular , not the plural ) . The plural comes only with col- lectives denoting living beings : " The vast majority had never known a time when Queen Victoria had not been reigning over them . " ( The collective ...
Pagina 234
... light " indulges to excess in repetition : 66 " " 66 The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of sweetness and light . He who works for sweetness and light , works to make reason and the will of God prevail . He who works for machinery ...
... light " indulges to excess in repetition : 66 " " 66 The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of sweetness and light . He who works for sweetness and light , works to make reason and the will of God prevail . He who works for machinery ...
Pagina 271
... light by day ; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee but the Lord shall be to thee an everlasting light , and thy God thy glory . Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw herself : for the ...
... light by day ; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee but the Lord shall be to thee an everlasting light , and thy God thy glory . Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw herself : for the ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing