The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 53
... alliteration and every other reverberatory charm ; the other , a true monk , carries his regularity into everything - arrangement , metre , orthography . He is an English - speaking Dane , but educated in a monas- tery that has already ...
... alliteration and every other reverberatory charm ; the other , a true monk , carries his regularity into everything - arrangement , metre , orthography . He is an English - speaking Dane , but educated in a monas- tery that has already ...
Pagina 94
... alliterative right to be quoted along with Burns . 88. The great characteristic which distinguishes all the dialects from King's English is this - That they are com- paratively unaltered by French influence . In Scottish and provincial ...
... alliterative right to be quoted along with Burns . 88. The great characteristic which distinguishes all the dialects from King's English is this - That they are com- paratively unaltered by French influence . In Scottish and provincial ...
Pagina 586
... alliteration , assonance , verse , metre , rhyme , are directed towards this end . In prose this is more faintly and remotely indicated by such means as punctuation and italics and parentheses . Yet the distinction here drawn applies to ...
... alliteration , assonance , verse , metre , rhyme , are directed towards this end . In prose this is more faintly and remotely indicated by such means as punctuation and italics and parentheses . Yet the distinction here drawn applies to ...
Pagina 599
... alliteration was spoken of contemptuously , as if it had reached the stage of senility . The pedantic Holofernes says he will ' affect the letter , ' that is to say compose verses with alliteration . Hol . I will something affect the ...
... alliteration was spoken of contemptuously , as if it had reached the stage of senility . The pedantic Holofernes says he will ' affect the letter , ' that is to say compose verses with alliteration . Hol . I will something affect the ...
Pagina 621
... alliteration in poetry , where the echo of word to word is the sonorous organ of the poet . But a period comes in the course of the higher development of language , when the sonorousness of words gives place to the sentiment of ...
... alliteration in poetry , where the echo of word to word is the sonorous organ of the poet . But a period comes in the course of the higher development of language , when the sonorousness of words gives place to the sentiment of ...
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