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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a text #2
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
After his young, charming wife Dora died of a disease, he took a long journey, during which he would think he and his old friend Agnes would have fallen for one another.
Now he is staying at her great aunt's house during writing his masterpiece, the very this story.
When I read to Agnes what I wrote, when I saw her listening face, moved her to smiles or tears, and heard her cordial voice so earnest on the shadowy events of that imaginative world in which I lived, I thought what a fate mine might have been - but only thought so, as I had thought after I was married to Dora, that I could have wished my wife to be.
My duty to Agnes, who loved me with a love, which, if I disquieted, I wronged most selfishly and poorly, and could never restore; my matured assurance that I, who had worked out my own destiny, and won what I had impetuously set my heart on, had no right to murmur and must bear?comprised what I felt and what I had learned. But I loved her, and now it even became some consolation to me, vaguely to conceive a distant day when I might blamelessly avow it, when all this should be over; when I could say "Agnes, so it was when I came home, and now I am old, and I never have loved since!"
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to if "the love" is omitted after "restore."
2. I'd like to know if the subject of "had no right to murmur and must bear" is "I."
3. I'd like to know if "the love" is omitted after "bear."
4. And I'd like to know if the subject of "comprised" is "assurance."
Thank you in advance for your help.
After his young, charming wife Dora died of a disease, he took a long journey, during which he would think he and his old friend Agnes would have fallen for one another.
Now he is staying at her great aunt's house during writing his masterpiece, the very this story.
Chapter 62 A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
.................................When I read to Agnes what I wrote, when I saw her listening face, moved her to smiles or tears, and heard her cordial voice so earnest on the shadowy events of that imaginative world in which I lived, I thought what a fate mine might have been - but only thought so, as I had thought after I was married to Dora, that I could have wished my wife to be.
My duty to Agnes, who loved me with a love, which, if I disquieted, I wronged most selfishly and poorly, and could never restore; my matured assurance that I, who had worked out my own destiny, and won what I had impetuously set my heart on, had no right to murmur and must bear?comprised what I felt and what I had learned. But I loved her, and now it even became some consolation to me, vaguely to conceive a distant day when I might blamelessly avow it, when all this should be over; when I could say "Agnes, so it was when I came home, and now I am old, and I never have loved since!"
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to if "the love" is omitted after "restore."
2. I'd like to know if the subject of "had no right to murmur and must bear" is "I."
3. I'd like to know if "the love" is omitted after "bear."
4. And I'd like to know if the subject of "comprised" is "assurance."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. " To abbreviate: Agnes loved me with a love ... I could never restore.
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- " To abbreviate: Agnes loved me with a love ...
- I could never restore.
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- Yes, "I" is the subject.
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1. No, it is not omitted, because "restore" refers back to the earlier "love." To abbreviate:
Agnes loved me with a love ... I could never restore.
2. Yes, "I" is the subject.
3. I would say that the narrator must "bear" (live with) the existing situation.
4. There are two subjects: His duty and his assurance. When something is "comprised of," it is usually made up of se
Agnes loved me with a love ... I could never restore.
2. Yes, "I" is the subject.
3. I would say that the narrator must "bear" (live with) the existing situation.
4. There are two subjects: His duty and his assurance. When something is "comprised of," it is usually made up of se
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Thank you, Doctor D, for your so very kind and helpful answer. 
3. Then I'd like to know if "murmur" is intransitive here.
3. Then I'd like to know if "murmur" is intransitive here.
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3. Murmur is in the infinitive form, but you are correct that it does not take an object in this case.
Murmur can take either form. I murmured. I murmured threats.
4. Again, it is a double subject (and a double object). (Agnes' love and my assurance) comprised (what I felt and what I learned). Perhaps my example was misleading.
Murmur can take either form. I murmured. I murmured threats.
4. Again, it is a double subject (and a double object). (Agnes' love and my assurance) comprised (what I felt and what I learned). Perhaps my example was misleading.
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