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الصفحة 104
... letter in a weighty period , unless it is supposed to be a mere typographical accident , destroys the confidence of critical readers in the edition , and the book , in a grammatical point of view , becomes worthless . The manuscript in ...
... letter in a weighty period , unless it is supposed to be a mere typographical accident , destroys the confidence of critical readers in the edition , and the book , in a grammatical point of view , becomes worthless . The manuscript in ...
الصفحة 106
... letter - change , in the Anglo - Saxon . The range of letter - change in Anglo - Saxon grammar was indeed wide , but not endless or arbitrary . It however became so , at least in the poetic dialect , as soon as Norman influence had ...
... letter - change , in the Anglo - Saxon . The range of letter - change in Anglo - Saxon grammar was indeed wide , but not endless or arbitrary . It however became so , at least in the poetic dialect , as soon as Norman influence had ...
الصفحة 107
... letter- change in the strong inflection . We cannot indeed hold them guilty of corrupting the language of the nation With long - tailed words in -osity and -ation ; but we can fairly convict them of making it more desperately Gothic in ...
... letter- change in the strong inflection . We cannot indeed hold them guilty of corrupting the language of the nation With long - tailed words in -osity and -ation ; but we can fairly convict them of making it more desperately Gothic in ...
الصفحة 125
... Letters XII . & XXIII . , Hume , History of England , general sketch of Com- monwealth , forming conclusion of chap . LX . , Gibbon , Decline and Fall , vol . I. chap . VII . , Webster , Second Speech on Foot's Resolution , entire ...
... Letters XII . & XXIII . , Hume , History of England , general sketch of Com- monwealth , forming conclusion of chap . LX . , Gibbon , Decline and Fall , vol . I. chap . VII . , Webster , Second Speech on Foot's Resolution , entire ...
الصفحة 135
... Gower ( Pauli's edition , II . 211 , 214 ) uses haveless , but I do not know that this word is found elsewhere . Tireless and resistless occur in good writers . letter - change , to a Romance root . * ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH . 135.
... Gower ( Pauli's edition , II . 211 , 214 ) uses haveless , but I do not know that this word is found elsewhere . Tireless and resistless occur in good writers . letter - change , to a Romance root . * ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH . 135.
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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.