Grammatical Subject

Famous quotes containing the words grammatical and/or subject:

    “Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at: school-languages and other merely grammatical stuff, if there were nothing better! The largest soul that was in all England.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “He has served me too well; by increasing my power he has stolen it away: he is now my subject only so long as he pleases.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)