The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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... thought I could improve ; but this has not occasioned a single change in matter of principle , or in the general plan of arrangement . Not- withstanding many variations of detail , this Edition is essentially one with the First . The ...
... thought I could improve ; but this has not occasioned a single change in matter of principle , or in the general plan of arrangement . Not- withstanding many variations of detail , this Edition is essentially one with the First . The ...
Pagina 57
... thought to some of those exalted aims for which men have hazarded their lives . Another word may be cited , which belonged originally to the same ill - conditioned strain , but which time has purified and converted into a picturesque ...
... thought to some of those exalted aims for which men have hazarded their lives . Another word may be cited , which belonged originally to the same ill - conditioned strain , but which time has purified and converted into a picturesque ...
Pagina 59
... thought I wrung , And bare it to drink to Pharaoh ( I dreamed ) as I was wont to do . At the end of his version of Genesis , the poet speaks of himself and of his work : - - God schilde hise sowle fro helle bale God shield his soul from ...
... thought I wrung , And bare it to drink to Pharaoh ( I dreamed ) as I was wont to do . At the end of his version of Genesis , the poet speaks of himself and of his work : - - God schilde hise sowle fro helle bale God shield his soul from ...
Pagina 66
... thought to have said a good and memorable thing when he gave as his reason for preferring one man to a farm rather than another , that his man could not speak French . The French which was spoken in this country had acquired an insular ...
... thought to have said a good and memorable thing when he gave as his reason for preferring one man to a farm rather than another , that his man could not speak French . The French which was spoken in this country had acquired an insular ...
Pagina 69
... thought lies the germ of the philological idea . $ 9 . The King's English . 67. We have a phenomenon to account for . In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language . It appeared at once in ...
... thought lies the germ of the philological idea . $ 9 . The King's English . 67. We have a phenomenon to account for . In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language . It appeared at once in ...
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