The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... interest in English is not limited merely to the spoken word . From the beginning of the modern era , the culture of the world has been becoming more and more a literary culture . Ours might well be called a pen and paper civilization ...
... interest in English is not limited merely to the spoken word . From the beginning of the modern era , the culture of the world has been becoming more and more a literary culture . Ours might well be called a pen and paper civilization ...
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... interest in themselves and apart from their practical applications . It is certainly no unreasonable expectation to suppose that a lover of English speech should want to know as much about the language as he can , not only the language ...
... interest in themselves and apart from their practical applications . It is certainly no unreasonable expectation to suppose that a lover of English speech should want to know as much about the language as he can , not only the language ...
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... interests of the critical attitude in speech . One may be concerned not merely with removing obstructions to healthy action , but with the endeavor to discover new paths , to bring something into existence in the use of language which ...
... interests of the critical attitude in speech . One may be concerned not merely with removing obstructions to healthy action , but with the endeavor to discover new paths , to bring something into existence in the use of language which ...
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... interest of speech , moreover , is not consumed in the practical activities of communication by means of the voice in speaking or by means of the pen in writing . One may wish to know the English language from a dis- interested love of ...
... interest of speech , moreover , is not consumed in the practical activities of communication by means of the voice in speaking or by means of the pen in writing . One may wish to know the English language from a dis- interested love of ...
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... interests the western world is naturally the Indo - European family , comprising within itself practically all the ' anguages of Europe , ancient and modern , as well as some of those of central and western Asia , and in consequence of ...
... interests the western world is naturally the Indo - European family , comprising within itself practically all the ' anguages of Europe , ancient and modern , as well as some of those of central and western Asia , and in consequence of ...
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acquired adjective adverbs Anglo-Saxon artist become called Celts century Chaucer colloquial common consonant correctness cultivated custom dative definition dialect dictionary distinction elements England English language English speech English word etymology example existence experience expression fact feeling formal forms of speech free verse French gender Germanic languages guage habits human idiom Indo-European languages Indo-European parent speech inflectional intelligible kind Latin less linguistic literary literature logical matter meaning merely Middle English mind Modern English mood nature notion noun origin perhaps period person phonetic phrase plural poet poetry popular possessive possible practical present preterite pronoun pronounced pronunciation prose purist question reason regular result rhythm rules Saxon sense sentence Shakspere simple singular social sounds speak speaker spelling split infinitive strong verbs structure student style syllable tense term things thought tion traditional unity verb verse vocabulary vowel weak inflection whole writing
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Seite 470 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Seite 471 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I heard this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Seite 506 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Seite 455 - To this I reply, that a rustic's language, purified from all provincialism and grossness, and so far re-constructed as to be made consistent with the rules of grammar, (which are, in essence, no other than the laws of universal logic applied to Psychological materials,) will not differ from the language of any other man of...
Seite 515 - ... a sort of cloistral refuge, from a certain vulgarity in the actual world. A perfect poem like Lycidas, a perfect fiction like Esmond, the perfect handling of a theory like Newman's Idea of a University, has for them something of the uses of a religious "retreat.
Seite 502 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen.
Seite 426 - Style in all its varieties, reserved or opulent, terse, abundant, musical, stimulant, academic, so long as each is really characteristic or expressive, finds thus its justification, the sumptuous good taste of Cicero being as truly the man himself, and not another, justified, yet insured inalienably to him, thereby, as would have been his portrait by Raffaelle, in full consular splendour, on his ivory chair.
Seite 507 - Be proud! for she is saved, and all have helped to save her! She that lifts up the manhood of the poor, She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind!
Seite 426 - The one word for the one thing, the one thought, amid the multitude of words, terms, that might just do: the problem of style was there ! — the unique word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, essay, or song, absolutely proper to the single mental presentation or vision within. In that perfect justice, over and above the many contingent and removable beauties with which beautiful style may charm us, but which it can exist without...
Seite 505 - Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashcst him again to earth: — there let him lay.