The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 96
... rhythm , the modulation , the music of the language was one entirely new . Every Englishman knows that it is comparatively easy to understand the dialects in print , but often quite impossible in conversation . The main cause of this is ...
... rhythm , the modulation , the music of the language was one entirely new . Every Englishman knows that it is comparatively easy to understand the dialects in print , but often quite impossible in conversation . The main cause of this is ...
Pagina 154
... rhythm of our early poets . Chaucer has aventure contrée for our advénture " " country corage 99 coúrage fortúne ... rhythms . For example , he accents aspect on the last syllable , as in Paradise Lost , vi . 450 : — His words here ended ...
... rhythm of our early poets . Chaucer has aventure contrée for our advénture " " country corage 99 coúrage fortúne ... rhythms . For example , he accents aspect on the last syllable , as in Paradise Lost , vi . 450 : — His words here ended ...
Pagina 195
... rhythm : -- How pleasant it is to have money , heigh ho ! How pleasant it is to have money . Arthur H. Clough . This will suffice to exhibit the nature of the first class of interjections ; -those which stand nearest to nature and ...
... rhythm : -- How pleasant it is to have money , heigh ho ! How pleasant it is to have money . Arthur H. Clough . This will suffice to exhibit the nature of the first class of interjections ; -those which stand nearest to nature and ...
Pagina 227
... rhythm requires for the word thyng in both these places , is by itself almost enough to indicate that they are not to be taken as when we say ' I would not do it for anything , ' or ' Here's a thing will do . ' In these trivial ...
... rhythm requires for the word thyng in both these places , is by itself almost enough to indicate that they are not to be taken as when we say ' I would not do it for anything , ' or ' Here's a thing will do . ' In these trivial ...
Pagina 242
... rhythms . No ; it all lies in the coyness of those little words whose meaning is as strikingly telling as it is impalpably subtle . It is those airy nothings which scholars have been chasing all these centuries ever since the revival ...
... rhythms . No ; it all lies in the coyness of those little words whose meaning is as strikingly telling as it is impalpably subtle . It is those airy nothings which scholars have been chasing all these centuries ever since the revival ...
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