English, Past and Present: Five LecturesJohn W. Parker and Son, 1855 - 246 páginas |
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... earlier form which I had sketched out at the first ; and , inasmuch as it helps much to keep lectures vivid and real that one should have some well de- fined audience , if not actually before one , yet before the mind's eye , to suppose ...
... earlier form which I had sketched out at the first ; and , inasmuch as it helps much to keep lectures vivid and real that one should have some well de- fined audience , if not actually before one , yet before the mind's eye , to suppose ...
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... earlier date found admission into our tongue , are derived from this quarter . Now , of course , I have no right to presume that any among us are equipped with that knowledge of other tongues which shall enable us to detect of ourselves ...
... earlier date found admission into our tongue , are derived from this quarter . Now , of course , I have no right to presume that any among us are equipped with that knowledge of other tongues which shall enable us to detect of ourselves ...
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... earlier English ; ' treasure ' is from ' thesaurus , ' but through ' trésor ; ' ' emperor ' is the Latin ' imperator , ' but it was first ' empereur . ' It will not at all un- commonly happen that the substantive has passed to us ...
... earlier English ; ' treasure ' is from ' thesaurus , ' but through ' trésor ; ' ' emperor ' is the Latin ' imperator , ' but it was first ' empereur . ' It will not at all un- commonly happen that the substantive has passed to us ...
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... earlier form of the word has undergone , is not far to seek . Words which have been introduced into a language at an early period , when as yet writing is rare , and books are few or none , when therefore orthography is unfixed , or ...
... earlier form of the word has undergone , is not far to seek . Words which have been introduced into a language at an early period , when as yet writing is rare , and books are few or none , when therefore orthography is unfixed , or ...
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... earlier use . ' Haut , is skin , but its English representative is ' hide , ' skin , that is , of a beast . Stuhl , ' a seat or chair , is degraded into ' stool ; ' while ' graben ' is no longer to dig , but only to grub . ' In ' rasch ...
... earlier use . ' Haut , is skin , but its English representative is ' hide , ' skin , that is , of a beast . Stuhl , ' a seat or chair , is degraded into ' stool ; ' while ' graben ' is no longer to dig , but only to grub . ' In ' rasch ...
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Página 31 - 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.
Página 167 - 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.
Página 49 - 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.
Página 47 - 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.
Página 74 - 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.
Página 109 - The persons plural keep the termination of the first person singular. In former times, till about the reign of king Henry the eighth, they were wont to be formed by adding en ; thus, loven, sayen, complainen. But now (whatsoever is the cause) it hath quite grown out of use, and that other so generally prevailed, that I dare not presume to set this afoot again : albeit (to tell you my opinion) I am persuaded that the lack hereof well considered will be found a great blemish to our tongue.
Página 117 - 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.
Página 211 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.