Lectures on the English LanguageC. Scribner, 1860 - 697 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة viii
... affected by the Art of Printing - I . 407 LECTURE XX . English as affected by the Art of Printing - II . 426 LECTURE XXI . English as affected by the Art of Printing - III . 444 LECTURE XXII . Orthoepical changes in English 468 LECTURE ...
... affected by the Art of Printing - I . 407 LECTURE XX . English as affected by the Art of Printing - II . 426 LECTURE XXI . English as affected by the Art of Printing - III . 444 LECTURE XXII . Orthoepical changes in English 468 LECTURE ...
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... affected by extraneous , alien , and discordant in- fluences , so much mixed with foreign ingredients , so much overloaded with adventitious appendages , that it is , to most of those who speak it , in a considerable degree , a conven ...
... affected by extraneous , alien , and discordant in- fluences , so much mixed with foreign ingredients , so much overloaded with adventitious appendages , that it is , to most of those who speak it , in a considerable degree , a conven ...
الصفحة 10
... affected , to make much of the foren , and set light by their own , as we seme to do , we had neuer had these things which we like of so much , we should neuer by compar- ing haue discerned the better . - Richard Mulcaster , First Part ...
... affected , to make much of the foren , and set light by their own , as we seme to do , we had neuer had these things which we like of so much , we should neuer by compar- ing haue discerned the better . - Richard Mulcaster , First Part ...
الصفحة 37
... affecting the internal or external life of a particular race , could be pre- cisely known , their entire language might be predicted and constructed beforehand , with as much certainty as any other result of the action of human ...
... affecting the internal or external life of a particular race , could be pre- cisely known , their entire language might be predicted and constructed beforehand , with as much certainty as any other result of the action of human ...
الصفحة 82
... affected Latinism in style , classical turns of expression were too common in English to need to be sought in the dead languages alone . The supposition of such a scholastic training , as even a very moderate acquaintance with Latin ...
... affected Latinism in style , classical turns of expression were too common in English to need to be sought in the dead languages alone . The supposition of such a scholastic training , as even a very moderate acquaintance with Latin ...
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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 165 - 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 570 - My life is like the prints which feet Have left on Tampa's desert strand; Soon as the rising tide shall beat, All trace will vanish from the sand; Yet, as if grieving to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore loud moans the sea — But none, alas! shall mourn for me!
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 628 - Oxford. 13. The directors in each company to be the Deans of Westminster and Chester for that place, and the king's professors in the Hebrew or Greek in either university. 14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the text than the Bishops' Bible: Tindale's, Matthew's, Coverdale's, Whitchurch's, Geneva.
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 629 - ... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark.
الصفحة 130 - ... rising from her reeking hide; a walleyed horse, tired of the loneliness of the stable, was poking his spectral head out of a window, with the rain dripping on it from the eaves; an unhappy cur, chained to a doghouse hard by, uttered something every now and then, between a bark and a yelp ; a drab of a...
الصفحة 161 - When he wrote for publication, he did his sentences out of English into Johnsonese. His, letters from the Hebrides to Mrs. Thrale are the original of that work of which the Journey to the Hebrides is the translation, and it is amusing to compare the two versions. ' 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.
الصفحة 447 - It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.