Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a text #2
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He invited a despicable, he think, lawyer-to-be Uriah to have some coffee at his apartment.
Agnes is his old friend and Uriah is to become the partner of her father, a local lawyer, Mr. Wickfield.
Uriah confessed his affection towards Agnes.
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'If you'll have the goodness to keep my secret, Master Copperfield,' he pursued, 'and not, in general, to go against me, I shall take it as a particular favour. You wouldn't wish to make unpleasantness. I know what a friendly heart you've got; but having only known me on my umble footing (on my umblest I should say, for I am very umble still), you might, unbeknown, go against me rather, with my Agnes. I call her mine, you see, Master Copperfield. There's a song that says, "I'd crowns resign, to call her mine!" I hope to do it, one of these days.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know "with my Agnes" modifes "me."
2. And I'd like to know what "I'd crowns resign" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He invited a despicable, he think, lawyer-to-be Uriah to have some coffee at his apartment.
Agnes is his old friend and Uriah is to become the partner of her father, a local lawyer, Mr. Wickfield.
Uriah confessed his affection towards Agnes.
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'If you'll have the goodness to keep my secret, Master Copperfield,' he pursued, 'and not, in general, to go against me, I shall take it as a particular favour. You wouldn't wish to make unpleasantness. I know what a friendly heart you've got; but having only known me on my umble footing (on my umblest I should say, for I am very umble still), you might, unbeknown, go against me rather, with my Agnes. I call her mine, you see, Master Copperfield. There's a song that says, "I'd crowns resign, to call her mine!" I hope to do it, one of these days.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know "with my Agnes" modifes "me."
2. And I'd like to know what "I'd crowns resign" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
I am not sure I can say what it modifies. The phrasing is difficult. What Heep is saying is clear, however.
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I am not sure I can say what it modifies. The phrasing is difficult.
What Heep is saying is clear, however. He doesn't want Copperfield to say anything bad to Agnes about Heep (and his proposal).
"I'd crowns resign" means that "for love, I would give up the chance to be king." He would resign as king in order to "call her mine.
What Heep is saying is clear, however. He doesn't want Copperfield to say anything bad to Agnes about Heep (and his proposal).
"I'd crowns resign" means that "for love, I would give up the chance to be king." He would resign as king in order to "call her mine.
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Thank you, Doctor D, for another so very kind answer from you. 
Then I think "I'd crowns resign" might be "I would crowns resign
Then I think "I'd crowns resign" might be "I would crowns resign
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park sang joonThen I think "I'd crowns resign" might be "I would crowns resign."It's part of a then-popular song; the word order is changed to match to meter and/or tune.
It's "I would resign (give up) crowns". A crown is a unit of money, but it could also be the symbol of royalty in this context.
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