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For he can quote poetry, some of the big scholars have heard him do it; he can parse the whole of "Paradise Lost," and he can cipher in Long Division, and the Rule of Three, as if it was all Simple Addition; and then, such a hand as he writes, and such a superb capital B! It is hard to understand how he does it.
There was now to be met the first issue in the new field. He plunged into his task. Then the professor: "Well, yes, you have caught my idea. How write upon the board: 'This is the forest primeval, and a dozen lines or so following, from this slip. Scan that for me; parse it; show me the relations of words and clauses, and all that sort of thing."
This, then, was the awful examination paper which was to determine his position at Saint Dominic's, or else expose his ignorance to the scorn of his masters. How he wished he was on the other side of it, and that the ordeal was over! "Question 1. Grammar. Parse the sentence, `Oh, ah! and state the gender of the following substantives: `and, `look, `here."
Dora had a really wonderful earth voice, almost as wonderful as Marda's heaven voice, which would have been remarkable even among opera singers, and the two were known everywhere for their improvisations. In answer to the remark of the princess, Marda gave her a strange look and said: "I shall be near you, Dora Parse. Do not forget."
I studied algebra, geometry, chemistry, French, and logic, wrote compositions, and declaimed in the chapel, as the rules required. It was at this time that I first read Milton. We had to parse in "Paradise Lost," and I recall how I was shocked and astonished by that celestial warfare. I told one of my classmates that I did not believe a word of it.
And if he could do that then, think what he must he able to do now, and what a pleasure it must afford him!" I would not imbitter Sylvia's joy by intimating that perhaps Mr. Prentice's studious regard for much of the poetry that he published was based upon the fact that he could not parse it. There has been the most terrible trouble with the raccoon.
"How is our little scholar?" she asked affectionately. "I am very well, Dora Parse, but a little tired," Marda answered. "And did you receive another paper?" "Yes. I passed my exams. It will save me half a year in Dover." "That is good," Dora Parse replied, although she had only the dimmest idea of what Marda meant. The young girl knew that.
I can speak it, and read it, and write it, and think it.... Now don't you think that if a girl can do that if she can learn thousands and thousands of new words, how to pronounce them, and spell them, and parse them, and inflect them how to supply hundreds of rules of grammar and if she can learn to do this so well that she can chat away in French without giving it a thought don't you think she might be able to learn something about the language and rules of business, too, if they were only taught to her?
Tom twisted and looked rather cross, but when asked to parse the word viribus, answered readily and correctly. "Very well, only two more affuit?" "Third person singular, praeter perfect tense of the verb affo, affis, affui, affere," gabbled off Tom with such confidence, that though Ethel gave an indignant jump, Richard was almost startled into letting it pass, and disbelieving himself.
The other day, last Wednesday it were, about 'ar parse five, Jane she's the worst of the two, always up to it, she is she got hold of my old hat and had it in bits before you could say knife. John upset a china vase in one of the bedrooms chasing a mouse, and they got on the coffee-room table and ate half a cold chicken what had been left there. So I says to myself, 'I'll have a game with Mr.
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