Outlines of the History of the English LanguageMacmillan, 1900 - 284 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... says : ' Forasmuch as with that measure a man measures himself he measures the things that are his , it befalls that to the magnanimous his own things ever appear better than they are , those of others less good ; the pusillanimous ever ...
... says : ' Forasmuch as with that measure a man measures himself he measures the things that are his , it befalls that to the magnanimous his own things ever appear better than they are , those of others less good ; the pusillanimous ever ...
الصفحة 3
... , improving , and ascertaining the English tongue , in a letter to the Lord High Treasurer ' ; in this he says , ' What I have most at heart is , that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Chapter I 3.
... , improving , and ascertaining the English tongue , in a letter to the Lord High Treasurer ' ; in this he says , ' What I have most at heart is , that some method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Chapter I 3.
الصفحة 4
... says , ' I defy the greatest divine to produce any law either of God or man , which obliges me to comprehend the meaning of omniscience , omnipresence , ubiquity , attribute , beatific vision , with a thousand others so frequent in ...
... says , ' I defy the greatest divine to produce any law either of God or man , which obliges me to comprehend the meaning of omniscience , omnipresence , ubiquity , attribute , beatific vision , with a thousand others so frequent in ...
الصفحة 5
... says Puttenham in the previously quoted chapter , ' at this day usuall in Court , and with all good secre- taries and cannot find an English word to match him ' : the word is presented , is tried , is not without merit in some eyes ...
... says Puttenham in the previously quoted chapter , ' at this day usuall in Court , and with all good secre- taries and cannot find an English word to match him ' : the word is presented , is tried , is not without merit in some eyes ...
الصفحة 8
... say : ' pū cwicne abregd cniht of āde ' ; while in the prose trans- lation of the passage telling of Hagar and her child in the wilderness , Ishmael is called cnapa , and the same word is used in speaking of Joseph when he is cast into ...
... say : ' pū cwicne abregd cniht of āde ' ; while in the prose trans- lation of the passage telling of Hagar and her child in the wilderness , Ishmael is called cnapa , and the same word is used in speaking of Joseph when he is cast into ...
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الصفحة 232 - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
الصفحة 278 - His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations.
الصفحة 273 - When a man writes to the world, he summons up all his reason and deliberation to assist him ; he searches, meditates, is industrious, and likely consults and confers with his judicious friends ; after all which done, he takes himself to be informed in what he writes, as well as any that writ before him...
الصفحة 275 - One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit and language, and humour also in some measure, we had before him ; bat something of art was wanting to the drama till he came.
الصفحة 279 - The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age.
الصفحة 253 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
الصفحة 278 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
الصفحة 16 - Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed.
الصفحة 267 - ... valour, which that right soldier-like nation think the chiefest kindlers of brave courage. The incomparable Lacedaemonians did not only carry that kind of music ever with them to the field, but even at home, as such songs were made, so were they all content to be...
الصفحة 275 - If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he weaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially: perhaps, too, he did a little too much Romanise our tongue, leaving the words which he translated almost as much Latin as he found them: wherein, though he learnedly followed their language, he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours.