On the English Language, Past and PresentRedfield, 1858 - 238 Seiten |
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... Chaucer's age is not the speech of Skelton's , that there is a great difference between the language un- der Elizabeth and that under Charles I. , between that under Charles I. and Charles II . , between that under Charles II . and ...
... Chaucer's age is not the speech of Skelton's , that there is a great difference between the language un- der Elizabeth and that under Charles I. , between that under Charles I. and Charles II . , between that under Charles II . and ...
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... Chaucer and Wiclif . How great a change , how vast a difference in our lan- guage , within eight memories ! No one , overlooking this whole term , will deny the greatness of the change . For all this , we may be tolerably sure that ...
... Chaucer and Wiclif . How great a change , how vast a difference in our lan- guage , within eight memories ! No one , overlooking this whole term , will deny the greatness of the change . For all this , we may be tolerably sure that ...
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... Chaucer's . * Doubtless , he did much ; he fell in with and furthered a tendency which already prevailed . But to suppose that the greater number of French vocables which he employed in his poems had never been employed before , had ...
... Chaucer's . * Doubtless , he did much ; he fell in with and furthered a tendency which already prevailed . But to suppose that the greater number of French vocables which he employed in his poems had never been employed before , had ...
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... Chaucer such French words as these : misericorde , ' ' malure ' ( malheur ) , ' peni- ble , ' ' tas , ' ' gipon , ' ' pierrie ' ( precious stones ) ; none of which have been permanently incorporated in our tongue . As little has ...
... Chaucer such French words as these : misericorde , ' ' malure ' ( malheur ) , ' peni- ble , ' ' tas , ' ' gipon , ' ' pierrie ' ( precious stones ) ; none of which have been permanently incorporated in our tongue . As little has ...
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... Chaucer . But with him our literature and lan- guage had made a burst , which they were not able to maintain . He has by Warton been well compared to some warm , bright day in the very early spring , which seems to say that the winter ...
... Chaucer . But with him our literature and lan- guage had made a burst , which they were not able to maintain . He has by Warton been well compared to some warm , bright day in the very early spring , which seems to say that the winter ...
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adjective adopted affirm altogether Anglo-Saxon become Ben Jonson black guard called causes century changes Chaucer COMPOSITE LANGUAGE derived dictionaries doubt dropped Dryden earlier early employed England English language English words etymology example exist express fact female feminine foreign words French words Fuller Gabriel Harvey gain German German language gradually grammatical Greek Grimm guage Hacket Holland instance introduced Italian Jeremy Taylor Jonson Latin language Latin words lecture less letters living loss low Latin manner matter meaning merely Milton modern nation native natural never observe obsolete once originally orthography passage perfuga period Plutarch poet possess present Quintilian remains Saxon Saxon word seeking sense Shakespeare shape Sir Thomas Elyot sometimes sound speak spelling spelt Spenser spoken strong præterites substantive suppose survives syllable things tion translation usage vast number verb vocables whole Wiclif Wiclif's Bible writing written
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Seite 39 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Seite 167 - That it may please Thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them ; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
Seite 56 - These too have done the same; ' despicable,' ' destruction,' 'homicide,' 'obsequious,' ' ponderous,' ' portentous,' ' prodigious,' all which another writer a little earlier condemns as " inkhorn terms, smelling too much of the Latin." It is curious to observe the " words of art," as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, counts it needful to explain in a sort of glossary which he appends to his translation...
Seite 55 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
Seite 52 - If sounding Words are not of our growth and Manufacture, who shall hinder me to Import them from a Foreign Country? I carry not out the Treasure of the Nation, which is never to return: but what I bring from Italy, I spend in England : Here it remains, and here it circulates ; for if the Coyn be good, it will pass from one hand to another. I Trade both with the Living and the Dead, for the enrichment of our Native Language.
Seite 28 - THE LORD is my shepherd ; therefore can I lack nothing. He shall feed me in a green pasture, and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort. He shall convert my soul, and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Seite 206 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Seite 42 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Seite 202 - But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? "No," ('tis replied) "the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws; Th' exceptions few; some change since all began: And what created perfect?
Seite 164 - Sc. 2,) a cowardly braggart of a soldier describes the treatment he experienced, when like Parolles he was at length found out, and stripped of his lion's skin : — " They hung me up by the heels and beat me with hazel sticks, . . . that the whole kingdom took notice of me for a baffled whipped fellow.