+Analysis+.
1. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows.
+Explanation.+—Tom is independent by address. But is an adjective modifying shadows.
2. There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights.
+Explanation+.—Often, as in this sentence, there is used idiomatically, merely to throw the subject after the verb, the idea of place having faded out of the word. To express place, another there may follow the predicate; as, There is gold there.
3. Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro. 4. Hope lost, all is lost. 5. The smith, a mighty man is he. 6. Why, this is not revenge. 7. Well, this is the forest of Arden. 8. Now, there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep-market, a pool. 9. To speak plainly, your habits are your worst enemies. 10. No accident occurring, we shall arrive to-morrow. 11. The teacher being sick, there was no school Friday. 12. Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts. 13. Properly speaking, there can be no chance in our affairs. 14. But the enemies of tyranny—their path leads to the scaffold. 15. She (oh, the artfulness of the woman!) managed the matter extremely well.
retreat | began
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16. A day later (Oct. 19, 1812) began the fatal retreat of the Grand Army, from Moscow.
See Lesson 35.
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