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5. I could a tale unfold whose lightest word

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,

And each particular hair to stand on end.

6. In which predicament, I say, thou standest;
For it appears, by manifest proceeding
That, indirectly and directly, too,

Thou hast contrived against the very life
Of the defendant.

7. Together, both ere the high lawns appeared
Under the opening eyelids of the morn,
We drove afield, and both together heard
What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn,
Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night.

8. Four hundred trumpets sounded

A peal of warlike glee,

As that great host, with measured tread,
And spears advanced, and ensigns spread,
Rolled slowly towards the bridge's head,
Where stood the dauntless three.

9. Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm;
And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands;
Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf,

In cluster; then a mouldered church; and higher
A long street climbs to one tall-towered mill;
And high in heaven behind it a gray down
With Danish barrows; and a hazel-wood,
By autumn nutters haunted, flourishes

13. Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother a great family, who had rather see their children starve li gentlemen, than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneat their quality. This humor fills several parts of Europe wi pride and beggary. It is the happiness of a trading natio like ours that the younger sons, though incapable of an liberal art or profession, may be placed in such a way of life may perhaps enable them to vie with the best of their family Accordingly, we find several citizens that were launched int the world with narrow fortunes, rising by an honest industry t greater estates than those of their elder brothers. It is no improbable but Will was formerly tried at divinity, law, of physic; and that, finding his genius did not lie that way, his parents gave him up at length to his own inventions. But certainly, however improper he might have been for studies of a higher nature, he was perfectly well turned for the occupation of trade and commerce.

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14. Fain would I pause to dwell upon the world of charms that burst upon the enraptured gaze of my hero, as he entered the state parlor of Van Tassel's mansion. Not those of the bevy of buxom lasses, with their luxurious display of red and white; but the ample charms of a genuine Dutch country tea-table, in the sumptuous time of autumn. Such heaped-up platters of cakes of various and almost indescribable kinds, known only to experienced Dutch housewives! There was the doughty doughnut, the tender olykoek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole family of cakes. And then there were apple pies, and peach pies, and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy-piggledy, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst Heaven bless the mark! I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story. Happily, Ichabod Crane was not in so great a hurry as his historian, but did ample justice to every dainty.

IV. VERBS

Verbs are words expressing action, being, or condi- Verb tion. The expression takes the form of assertion (or assumption), question, command, or exclamation:

We go.

We are. We thrive. Go thou. Do we thrive?

According to their form, verbs are simple, derivative, Simple, etc. compound simple, when traceable to no other word in

the language; derivative, when made from other words by prefix, suffix, internal change; compound, when made by the union of two or more independent words:

come do be

become undo

outdo welcome

According to their meaning, verbs are intransitive, classes transitive, and copulative. An intransitive verb is a Complete verb of complete predication. It expresses sometimes Transitive an action not terminating on an object, sometimes a condition or existence:

I walk

I live

I weaken

I exist

Transitive verbs and copulative verbs are verbs of incomplete predication.

A transitive verb expresses an action terminating on

an object :

The hunter kills the deer. The boy caught the ball.

Incomplete

A copulative verb connects a modifying noun, pro- Copulative noun, or adjective, or an equivalent, with the subject of

the sentence:

These soldiers are Spaniards.

Men are mortal.

You seem cheerful.