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Chapter XXII
“THE HAPPIEST DAY.” I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown. Of power! said I? Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas! The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.
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used to show sadness, pity, or regret
From this reading “Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!”
the past participle of “be”
From this reading “The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.”
an old form of “has”
From this reading “I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!”
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading “The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!”
to think or suppose
From this reading “Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!”
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used to show sadness, pity, or regret
From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
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From this reading “THE HAPPIEST DAY.”
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading “THE HAPPIEST DAY.”
an old form of “has”
From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
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From this reading Of power! said I?
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From this reading I The happiest day—the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “THE HAPPIEST DAY.”
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
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From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
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From this reading The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.
to think or suppose
From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
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From this reading Yes! such I ween But they have vanished long, alas!
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From this reading The visions of my youth have been But let them pass.
