Lectures on the English LanguageC. Scribner's Sons, 1885 - 583 من الصفحات |
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... combinations which are not merely irregular , but repugnant . It has lost its original organic law of progress , and its present growth is by accretion , not by develop- ment . I shall not here inquire whether this condition LECT . I ...
... combinations which are not merely irregular , but repugnant . It has lost its original organic law of progress , and its present growth is by accretion , not by develop- ment . I shall not here inquire whether this condition LECT . I ...
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... combinations . That the English tongue , and the men who speak it , will yet achieve great victories in the field of mind , great works in the world of sense , we have ample self - conscious assurance ; but , in the existing state of ...
... combinations . That the English tongue , and the men who speak it , will yet achieve great victories in the field of mind , great works in the world of sense , we have ample self - conscious assurance ; but , in the existing state of ...
الصفحة 78
... combinations as the English . This advantage , or , for it is very doubtful whether it is an ad- * The Greeks had a proverbial saying : αμαθέστερον φρασον καὶ σαφέστερον , ' speak less learnedly and plainer , " which may well be applied ...
... combinations as the English . This advantage , or , for it is very doubtful whether it is an ad- * The Greeks had a proverbial saying : αμαθέστερον φρασον καὶ σαφέστερον , ' speak less learnedly and plainer , " which may well be applied ...
الصفحة 80
... combinations of language , can be nowhere else more advantageously studied . While then the study of Anglo - Saxon and of the older litera- ture of English itself promises the most abundant harvest of in- formation with respect to the ...
... combinations of language , can be nowhere else more advantageously studied . While then the study of Anglo - Saxon and of the older litera- ture of English itself promises the most abundant harvest of in- formation with respect to the ...
الصفحة 82
... combinations of Romance origin have been permanently approved and employed by good English writers . Every Gallicism in syntax is presumably a corruption ; but Norman French itself , as known to our ancestors , had been much modified by ...
... combinations of Romance origin have been permanently approved and employed by good English writers . Every Gallicism in syntax is presumably a corruption ; but Norman French itself , as known to our ancestors , had been much modified by ...
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الصفحة 60 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights; and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each shoulder, broad, came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, And colours dipt in heaven; the third his feet Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail, Sky-tinctured grain.
الصفحة 142 - 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 61 - 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: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
الصفحة 56 - 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 139 - 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 537 - 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 539 - 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 436 - By rejecting the posts, we light the savage fires, we bind the victims. This day we undertake to render account to the widows and orphans whom our decision will make, to the wretches that will be roasted at the stake, to our country, and I do not deem it too serious to say, to conscience and to God.
الصفحة 113 - It was the tomb of a crusader; of one of those military enthusiasts, who so strangely mingled religion and romance, and whose exploits form the connecting link between fact and fiction ; between the history and the fairy tale. There is something extremely picturesque in the tombs of these adventurers, decorated as they are with rude armorial bearings and Gothic sculpture.
الصفحة 131 - Though forced to drudge for the dregs of men, And scrawl strange words with the barbarous pen, And mingle among the jostling crowd, Where the sons of strife are subtle and loud...