English: past and present, 5 lectures |
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... language in which all these vicissitudes should be pointed out , in which the introduction of every new word should be noted , so far as it is possible - and much . may be done in this way by laborious and ... ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
... language in which all these vicissitudes should be pointed out , in which the introduction of every new word should be noted , so far as it is possible - and much . may be done in this way by laborious and ... ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
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... ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE . VERY slight acquaintance with the history of of Chaucer's age is not the speech of Skelton's , that there is a great difference between the language under Elizabeth and that under Charles the First ...
... ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE . VERY slight acquaintance with the history of of Chaucer's age is not the speech of Skelton's , that there is a great difference between the language under Elizabeth and that under Charles the First ...
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Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) ENGLISH , PAST ' AND PRESENT . A LECTURE I. ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE . VERY slight acquaintance with the history of our own language will teach us that the speech of Chaucer's age is not the ...
Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) ENGLISH , PAST ' AND PRESENT . A LECTURE I. ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE . VERY slight acquaintance with the history of our own language will teach us that the speech of Chaucer's age is not the ...
4 페이지
... language ? For all this bears witness to corresponding merits in those that speak it , to clearness of mental vision , to strength , to harmony , to nobleness in them that have gra- dually formed and shaped ... ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
... language ? For all this bears witness to corresponding merits in those that speak it , to clearness of mental vision , to strength , to harmony , to nobleness in them that have gra- dually formed and shaped ... ENGLISH A COMPOSITE LANGUAGE .
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... language be- comes rude and barbarous , must be on the brink of barbarism in regard to everything else . A nation which allows her language to go to ruin , is parting with the last half of her intellectual independence , and testifies ...
... language be- comes rude and barbarous , must be on the brink of barbarism in regard to everything else . A nation which allows her language to go to ruin , is parting with the last half of her intellectual independence , and testifies ...
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31 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.
49 페이지 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
47 페이지 - Poetry requires ornament ; and that is not to be had from our old Teuton monosyllables : therefore, if I find any elegant word in a classic author, I propose it to be naturalized, by using it myself; and, if the public approves of it, the bill passes. But every man cannot distinguish between pedantry and poetry : every man, therefore, is not fit to innovate.
167 페이지 - That it may please Thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them ; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
117 페이지 - With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd, Gris-amber-steam'd ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drain'd Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
211 페이지 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
206 페이지 - The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
74 페이지 - Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakespeare'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.