English Past and PresentRedfield, 1855 - 213페이지 |
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... longer those things which separate and divide him from them . And the love of our own language , what is it in fact , but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction ? If the great acts of that nation 1 LECTURE ...
... longer those things which separate and divide him from them . And the love of our own language , what is it in fact , but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction ? If the great acts of that nation 1 LECTURE ...
25 페이지
... longer undergo a thorough transforma- tion . For the most part the utmost which use and familiarity can do with it now , is to cause the gradual dropping of the foreign termination . Yet this too is not unimportant ; it often goes far ...
... longer undergo a thorough transforma- tion . For the most part the utmost which use and familiarity can do with it now , is to cause the gradual dropping of the foreign termination . Yet this too is not unimportant ; it often goes far ...
43 페이지
... longer the badge of inferiori- ty . French was no longer the only language in which a gentleman could speak , or in which a poet could sing . At the same time the Saxon , now passing into the English language , required a vast addition ...
... longer the badge of inferiori- ty . French was no longer the only language in which a gentleman could speak , or in which a poet could sing . At the same time the Saxon , now passing into the English language , required a vast addition ...
45 페이지
... longer or briefer period will wither and die . Thus I observe in Chaucer such French words as these , ' misericorde , ' ' malure ' ( malheur ) , ' penible , ' ' gipon , " ' pierrie ' for ' precious stones ; ' none of which have been ...
... longer or briefer period will wither and die . Thus I observe in Chaucer such French words as these , ' misericorde , ' ' malure ' ( malheur ) , ' penible , ' ' gipon , " ' pierrie ' for ' precious stones ; ' none of which have been ...
54 페이지
... longer or shorter all the strangers and incomers have been incorporated into the English nation , within one or two generations have forgotten that they were ever any other than members of it , retaining no other remin- iscence of their ...
... longer or shorter all the strangers and incomers have been incorporated into the English nation , within one or two generations have forgotten that they were ever any other than members of it , retaining no other remin- iscence of their ...
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adjectives adopted altogether Anglo-Saxon Beaumont and Fletcher become Ben Jonson black guard Blackwood's Magazine called century changes character Chaucer Chimæra COMPOSITE LANGUAGE Courier derived Dictionary Douay doubt Dryden earlier early edition employed English language English words etymology example express fact familiar female feminine find place foreign words French words gain German German language grammatical Greek guage illustrate instance Jeremy Taylor Latin language Latin words lecture letters living loss meaning merely Milton modern nation nature never noun number of words observe once original passage perfuga period persons Plutarch poems poet popular possess present pronunciation rathest reader RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Saxon seeking sense Shakespeare shape sound speak speech spelling spelt Spenser spoken strong præterites suppose survives syllable things tion tongue translation vast number verb Version whole Wiclif Wiclif's Bible write written
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106 페이지 - Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries : for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak wrong.
34 페이지 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
65 페이지 - Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakspeare's time that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure.
28 페이지 - The first and foremost step to all good works is the dread and fear of the Lord of heaven and earth, which through the Holy Ghost enlighteneth the blindness of our sinful hearts to tread the ways of wisdom, and lead our feet into the land of blessing."* This is not stiffer than the ordinary English of his time.
31 페이지 - cocoon,' (to speak by the language applied to silk-worms,) which the poem spins for itself. But, on the other hand, where the motion of the feeling is by and through the ideas, where, (as in religious or meditative poetry — Young's, for instance, or Cowper's,) the pathos creeps and kindles underneath the very tissues of the thinking, there the Latin will predominate ; and so much so that, whilst the flesh, the blood and the muscle, will be often almost exclusively Latin, the articulations only,...
94 페이지 - In former times, till about the reign of King Henry VIII., they were wont to be formed by adding en; thus, loven, sayen, complainen. But now (whatsoever is the cause) it hath quite grown out of use, and that other so generally prevailed, that I dare not presume to set this afoot again ; albeit (to tell you my opinion) 1 am persuaded that the lack hereof, well considered, will be found a great blemish to our tongue.
122 페이지 - I might here observe, that the same single letter on many occasions does the office of a whole word, and represents the his and her of our forefathers.
176 페이지 - But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? "No," ('tis replied) "the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws; Th' exceptions few; some change since all began: And what created perfect?