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... thing characteristic , every thing peculiar , in their own constitution , their own posses- sions , their own historic recollections , as conservative ele- ments , as means of resistance against an influence which sought , first , to ...
... thing characteristic , every thing peculiar , in their own constitution , their own posses- sions , their own historic recollections , as conservative ele- ments , as means of resistance against an influence which sought , first , to ...
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... thing of such vse , as the naturall deliurie of our mind and meaning is . And to saie the truth what rea- son is it ... things which we like of so much , we should neuer by compar- ng haue discerned the better . - Richard Mulcaster ...
... thing of such vse , as the naturall deliurie of our mind and meaning is . And to saie the truth what rea- son is it ... things which we like of so much , we should neuer by compar- ng haue discerned the better . - Richard Mulcaster ...
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... thing in language , ) the inflections are bald and imperfectly distinguished , and the number of solitary exceptional facts , especially in French , is very great . When I speak of the poverty of French inflections , I am aware I ...
... thing in language , ) the inflections are bald and imperfectly distinguished , and the number of solitary exceptional facts , especially in French , is very great . When I speak of the poverty of French inflections , I am aware I ...
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... thing to the existing stores of knowledge respecting English philology , and content himself with the humbler and more selfish aim of appropriating and elaborating the material which more fortunate or better trained European scholars ...
... thing to the existing stores of knowledge respecting English philology , and content himself with the humbler and more selfish aim of appropriating and elaborating the material which more fortunate or better trained European scholars ...
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... things , English has made any solid improvement for two centuries and a half , and few are sanguine enough to believe that future changes in its structure , or in its vocabu- lary , unless in the way just stated , will be changes for ...
... things , English has made any solid improvement for two centuries and a half , and few are sanguine enough to believe that future changes in its structure , or in its vocabu- lary , unless in the way just stated , will be changes for ...
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الصفحة 356 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
الصفحة 164 - But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
الصفحة 71 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence...
الصفحة 161 - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, " a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
الصفحة 66 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
الصفحة 511 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
الصفحة 629 - Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
الصفحة 130 - In one corner was a stagnant pool of water, surrounding an island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit, his drooping tail matted, as it were, into a single feather, along which the water trickled from his back...
الصفحة 333 - AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET W. SHAKESPEARE. WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid...
الصفحة 164 - When you are an anvil, hold you still ; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.