English Past and PresentRedfield, 1855 - 213페이지 |
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13 페이지
... 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 I THE ...
... 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 I THE ...
15 페이지
... things being so , if we would understand this language as it now is , we must know something of it as it has been ; we must be able to measure , however roughly , the forces which have been at work upon it , moulding and shaping it into ...
... things being so , if we would understand this language as it now is , we must know something of it as it has been ; we must be able to measure , however roughly , the forces which have been at work upon it , moulding and shaping it into ...
20 페이지
... things are for the most part designated among us by Celtic words ; such as ' bard , ' ' kilt , ' ' clan , ' ' pibroch , ' ' plaid , ' ' reel . ' Nor only such as these , which are all of them comparatively of modern intro- duction , but ...
... things are for the most part designated among us by Celtic words ; such as ' bard , ' ' kilt , ' ' clan , ' ' pibroch , ' ' plaid , ' ' reel . ' Nor only such as these , which are all of them comparatively of modern intro- duction , but ...
34 페이지
... can forego . Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words . It is part of the national mind , and the anchor of national serious- DOUAY VERSION OF SCRIPTURE . 35 ness .... The memory 34 ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
... can forego . Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words . It is part of the national mind , and the anchor of national serious- DOUAY VERSION OF SCRIPTURE . 35 ness .... The memory 34 ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
35 페이지
... thing , which doubt has never dimmed , and controversy never soiled . In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protest- ant with one spark of religiousness about him , whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible ...
... thing , which doubt has never dimmed , and controversy never soiled . In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protest- ant with one spark of religiousness about him , whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible ...
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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?