The Philology of the English Tongueat the Clarendon Press, 1873 - 679 pagine |
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient Anglo-Saxon appears become called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunctions consonant Danish dative dialects distinction Dutch elder emphasis English language example expression fact Faery Queene familiar flat adverb flexion following quotation French word function genitival German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage habit haue Hebrew illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern native nature negative noun observe origin Ormulum orthography participle person philology phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation Randle Cotgrave rendered rhyme rhythm Romanesque Sanskrit Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces verb verbal vowel William Cowper William Wordsworth writing þat
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Pagina 154 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Pagina 218 - The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Pagina 164 - But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away.
Pagina 396 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Pagina 329 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 615 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Pagina 136 - Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
Pagina 143 - Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Pagina 427 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Pagina 257 - Thy suppliant I beg, and clasp thy knees ; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress, My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace : both joining As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us.