An Introduction to the Study of English Literature;: Comprising Representative Masterpieces in Poetry and Prose, Marking the Successive Stages of Its Growth, and a Methodical Exposition of the Governing Principles and General Forms, Both of the Language and Literature; with Copious Notes on the Selections - Glossary, and Chronology, Designed for Systematic StudyScribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1877 - 539 من الصفحات |
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... origin and affinities of our language , selections preceded by brief biographical or historical notices are given from our greatest authors , those con- ceived to be the best representatives of our literature at the special stage of its ...
... origin and affinities of our language , selections preceded by brief biographical or historical notices are given from our greatest authors , those con- ceived to be the best representatives of our literature at the special stage of its ...
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... ORIGIN AND AFFINITIES . 1. The Dispersion of the Race and the Confusion of Tongues ; 2. The Migrations ; 3. Origin of Speech in the Instinct to communicate Thought ; 4. The First Words ; 5. Languages , Monosyllabic , Agglutinative , and ...
... ORIGIN AND AFFINITIES . 1. The Dispersion of the Race and the Confusion of Tongues ; 2. The Migrations ; 3. Origin of Speech in the Instinct to communicate Thought ; 4. The First Words ; 5. Languages , Monosyllabic , Agglutinative , and ...
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... ORIGIN AND AFFINITIES . 1. THE most advanced investigations of philological science significantly point to an original unity of race and of language ; and the Biblical narrative of the dispersion of the human family , and of the ...
... ORIGIN AND AFFINITIES . 1. THE most advanced investigations of philological science significantly point to an original unity of race and of language ; and the Biblical narrative of the dispersion of the human family , and of the ...
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... natural expression of the thought . The root of the word horror , the elements of which are the rough breathing and the vibrant r connected by a related vowel , raight easily symbolize the feeling of cold , ORIGIN AND AFFINITIES . 3.
... natural expression of the thought . The root of the word horror , the elements of which are the rough breathing and the vibrant r connected by a related vowel , raight easily symbolize the feeling of cold , ORIGIN AND AFFINITIES . 3.
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... origin of language has proceeded . See Part II . , Chap . I. , § 9 . The object thought may be identified with the sound . also through the resemblance of the sound to that which may be given out , or occasioned in some way by the ...
... origin of language has proceeded . See Part II . , Chap . I. , § 9 . The object thought may be identified with the sound . also through the resemblance of the sound to that which may be given out , or occasioned in some way by the ...
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accent aphthongal behold blood Brut Brutus Cæs Cæsar Caesars cæsura canto Cask Caska Cassi Chaucer Chor Cinna consonant death Decius doth elements English euery eyes fair father feare giue grace gret Grimm's Law Grisilde hand hast hath haue heare heart heaven heere hence herte Hiawatha hire honor inflectional Julius Cæsar king Knight Lancelot language Latin Lavaine look Lord loue maid Mark Antony markis meaning Minnehaha never Noble Nokomis noun object Octa Octauius orthographic Osseo past tense peple phthongal Piers Ploughman Plutarch poem poet pray prep Queen Sams Samson selfe shew sing Sir Lancelot Song of Hiawatha soul sound speak spelling spirit stem swiche syllable Thanne thee ther thing thou thought Titinius unto verb verse vnto vowel vpon whan wigwam wolde word Wycliffe
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الصفحة 297 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
الصفحة 304 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
الصفحة 381 - Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened...
الصفحة 195 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
الصفحة 184 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
الصفحة 315 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her Beau demand the precious Hairs : (Sir Plume, of Amber Snuff-box justly vain, And the nice Conduct of a clouded Cane...
الصفحة 399 - As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman ; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows ; Useless each without the other...
الصفحة 305 - But chiefly Love — to Love an altar built, Of twelve vast French romances neatly gilt, There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves. And all the trophies of his former loves.
الصفحة 308 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
الصفحة 384 - Showed the broad, white road in heaven, Pathway of the ghosts, the shadows, Running straight across the heavens, Crowded with the ghosts, the shadows. At the door on summer evenings Sat the little Hiawatha; Heard the whispering of the pine-trees. Heard the lapping of the water, Sounds of music, words of wonder; "Minne-wawa!