MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN REVIEW.
Analysis.
1. By means of steam man realizes the fable of Aeolus's bag, and carries
the two-and-thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.—Emerson.
2. The Angel of Life winds our brains up once for all, then closes the
case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of
Resurrection.—Holmes.
3. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the
Old.—Canning.
4. The prominent nose of the New Englander is evidence of the constant
linguistic exercise of that organ.—Warner.
5. Every Latin word has its function as noun or verb or adverb ticketed
upon it.—Earle.
6. The Alps, piled in cold and still sublimity, are an image of
despotism.—Phillips.
7. I want my husband to be submissive without looking so.—Gail Hamilton.
8. I love to lose myself in other men's minds.—Lamb.
9. Cheerfulness banishes all anxious care and discontent, soothes and
composes the passions, and keeps the soul in a perpetual
calm.—Addison.
10. To discover the true nature of comets has hitherto proved beyond the
power of science.
+Explanation+.—Beyond the power of science = impossible, and is therefore an attribute complement. The preposition beyond shows the relation, in sense, of power to the subject phrase.
11. Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.—Longfellow.
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LESSON 49.
REVIEW OF PUNCTUATION.
+Direction+.—Give the reasons, so far as you have been taught, for the marks of punctuation used in Lessons 44, 46, 47, and 48.
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