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67. O music! Sphere-descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aiḍ!
Why, goddess, why to us denied,
Layest thou thy ancient lyre aside?

68. Do not suffer life to stagnate.

69. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free.

70. A wight he was whose every sight would entitle him "Mirror of Knighthood."

71. I am the last of noble Edward's sons,

Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first.

72. We will kiss sweet kisses.

73. My story being done, she gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

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Thou old traitor,

I am sorry that by hanging thee I can
But shorten thy life one week.

My prettiest Perdita!

But, oh, the thorns we stand upon.

76. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

77. He sighed a sigh and prayed a prayer.

78. I was much disturbed by the barking of a dog, an animal that I fear more than any wolf.

79. "There is no shame in loving a courtly knight better than a country franklin."

80. Suppose the singing birds musicians.

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The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
Than a delightful measure or a dance.

81. They saw men all in a fire

Walk up and down the street.

82. I am the son of Marcus Cato,

83.

A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.
Six frozen winters spent,
Return with welcome home from banishment.

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84. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 85. Hath he not always treasures, always friends,

The good, great man? Three treasures-love and
light

And calm thoughts, equable as infant's breath,
And three fast friends, more sure than day and
night-

Himself, his Maker, and the Angel, Death.

86. He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

87. Somewhat apart from the village, and nearer the Basin of Minas,

Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of
Grand Pré,

Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing
his household,

Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village.

Stalwart and stately of form was the man of seventy winters:

Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes.

88. Rebecca knew about the value of jewels, too; but, oh! she valued this one more than all the diamonds in Prester John's turban.

89. He always said he would rather have had her than the thousand pounds.

90. But weigh your sorrows with our lord the king's, And weighing them, find them less.

91. You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife.

92. None sing so wildly well as the Angel Israfel.

93. I am too young to be your father, though you are old enough to be my heir.

94. Who hath proven him King Uther's son?

95. Let be called before us

That gentleman of Buckingham's. 96. He teacheth my hands to war.

97. For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child, Cordelia.

98. Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

99. Assuredly, I never to this day pass a latticewindowed cottage without wishing to be

cottager.

100. Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe

To give his cousin, Lady Clare.

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101. Bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches

high.

102. I don't wonder at people's giving him to me for a lover.

103. There's never a leaf nor a blade too mean

To be some happy creature's palace.

104. I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space were it not that I have bad dreams.

105. I was taken to a new toy of his and the squire's which he termed the falconry.

106. Thou wouldst make a good fool.

107. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

108. Alice dreamed a delightful dream, in which she was given a thimble by the Dodo.

109. "Wouldn't you like to be a nice, scaly dragon all green?" said Edward.

110. Evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want

of heart.

111. He was forbidden access to the sacrifices; he was refused the protection of the law.

THE PRONOUN.

Form for Parsing Pronouns

1. Kind

2. Antecedent

3. Gender

4. Number

5. Person

6. Case and Construction

Classes

1. Personal

Simple personal-a word used for the name of the speaker, the person spoken to, the person or thing spoken of.

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Poss.thy, thine, or your, yours your, yours

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her, hers

its

their, theirs

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Every pronoun has an antecedent expressed or understood. A pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender, number and person; it gets its case from its construction in its clause.

Exercise 5.-Parse the personal pronouns.

1. Good countrymen, let me depart alone.

2. Let him go up into the public chair.

3. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it

to you.

4. O make her a grave where the sunbeams rest

When they promise a glorious to-morrow.

5. My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.

6. This toil of ours should be a work of thine.

7. I that speak to thee am he.

8. I pray you choose another subject.

9. Hast thou made him leap as a locust?

10. The daughter of a hundred earls,

You are not one to be desired.

11. What's mine is yours and what's yours is mine. 12. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

13. Give me liberty or give me death.

14. There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

15. A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March. 16. Let him be Cæsar.

17. I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted with thee.

18. You can hear him swing his heavy sledge

With measured beat and slow.

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