A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue: In which the Present Usage is Displayed Agreeably to the Decisions of the French Academy |
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Common terms and phrases
adjective adverbs allé autre auxiliary verb avoir bateau boat beau beautiful bien BRANCH c'est COMPOUND TENSES COND conjugated devoir Dieu English été être eût EXAMPLES EXERCISE express faire fait falloir faut feminine French French language FUTURE ABSOLUTE gender and number homme Imperf IMPERFECT impersonal verb INFINITIVE IRREGULAR VERBS j'ai j'aurais j'avais j'eus j'eusse joi-nt jour livre long-temps masculine mettre monde mute never noun nouvelle opened held par-u parl-e parlé participle past peine plaire pleased appeared reduced pleasure PLUPERFECT plural pouvoir preposition pres PRESENT Pret PRETERIT DEFINITE pron pronominal pronominal verb pun-i pun-isse qu'il quoi reç-u rédui-t regimen rendered pleased appeared repent réussir rien RULE sen-ti sentences SIMPLE TENSES sing singular sœur sound speak SUBJ SUBJUNCTIVE substantive thing thou hadst thou might'st tout venir verb virtue vois vouloir vowel words
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Page 424 - Want as much more, to turn it to its use; For wit and judgment often are at strife, Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 'Tis more to guide, than spur the Muse's steed; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed; The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
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Page 423 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
Page 423 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same...
Page 423 - ... scenes, and of gratifying his reader with remote allusions and unexpected instruction. All the appearances of nature I was therefore careful to study, and every country which I have surveyed has contributed something to my poetical powers. In so wide a survey, said the prince, you must surely have left much unobserved.