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Jerry Friedman - 15 Jul 2009 18:47 GMT

You're sure you don't want to read an English grammar in verse, from
1835?

Sample:

The /personal pronouns/ persons do express ;
As, /I, thou, he; we, ye/ and /they/ confess.
With these their various endings too agree,
As we by /love, lovest,/ and /loves/ may see.

Levy Alexander, /The young lady and gentleman's guide to the grammar
of the English language .../

It starts here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=PIvB-mRMwD0C&pg=PA15

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Jerry Friedman

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Peter Duncanson (BrE) - 15 Jul 2009 19:11 GMT

>You're sure you don't want to read an English grammar in verse, from
>1835?
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>Levy Alexander, /The young lady and gentleman's guide to the grammar
>of the English language .../

I have visions of that being chanted in the classroom.

>It starts here:
>
>http://books.google.com/books?id=PIvB-mRMwD0C&pg=PA15

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Mike L - 15 Jul 2009 20:00 GMT

> >You're sure you don't want to read an English grammar in verse, from
> >1835?
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> >
> >http://books.google.com/books?id=PIvB-mRMwD0C&pg=PA15

Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D., was less ambitious in /The Revised Latin
Primer/, but had his moments of poetic sublimity:

"To Nouns that cannot be declined
The Neuter Gender is assigned:
Examples fas and nefas give,
And the Verb-Noun Infinitive:
Est summum nefas fallere:
/Deceit is gross impiety/."

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Mike.

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Nick Spalding - 16 Jul 2009 09:30 GMT

Mike L wrote, in
<d84fa3e3-2256-43e2-a521-15f023bd3cdf@k6g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>
on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:00:45 -0700 (PDT):

> > >You're sure you don't want to read an English grammar in verse, from
> > >1835?
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> Est summum nefas fallere:
> /Deceit is gross impiety/."

You beat me to it.

Appendix IV.

Memorial Lines on the Gender of Latin Substantives.

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Heroic couplets