Lectures on the English LanguageC. Scribner, 1860 - 697 من الصفحات |
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... century comes up to the elaborate elegance and the classic finish of Boccaccio and of Petrarch . But , in original power , and in all the high- est qualities of poetry , no Continental writer of that period , with the single exception ...
... century comes up to the elaborate elegance and the classic finish of Boccaccio and of Petrarch . But , in original power , and in all the high- est qualities of poetry , no Continental writer of that period , with the single exception ...
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... centuries before any improvements were made upon his diction or his numbers . I remarked that there are circumstances in the ... century should have given birth to almost nothing better than what , in spite of the ingenious arguments of ...
... centuries before any improvements were made upon his diction or his numbers . I remarked that there are circumstances in the ... century should have given birth to almost nothing better than what , in spite of the ingenious arguments of ...
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... century , Daines Barrington , a member of the Royal Society , tried a series of experiments to determine how far the notes of birds were spon- taneous and uniform , and how far dependent on instruction and imitation . The result ...
... century , Daines Barrington , a member of the Royal Society , tried a series of experiments to determine how far the notes of birds were spon- taneous and uniform , and how far dependent on instruction and imitation . The result ...
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... centuries after , and not improb- ably before , the commencement of the Christian era , bands of warlike adventurers ... century , and it is said to have been composed chiefly of Jutes , or Jutland- ers , under the leadership of Hengist ...
... centuries after , and not improb- ably before , the commencement of the Christian era , bands of warlike adventurers ... century , and it is said to have been composed chiefly of Jutes , or Jutland- ers , under the leadership of Hengist ...
الصفحة 42
... century after Christ the most important portion of Great Britain had been sub- dued , and was possessed , by Gothic tribes known to the indi- genous populations as Saxons . There is no historical proof by which we can identify the Anglo ...
... century after Christ the most important portion of Great Britain had been sub- dued , and was possessed , by Gothic tribes known to the indi- genous populations as Saxons . There is no historical proof by which we can identify the Anglo ...
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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.