English, Past and Present: Eight LecturesMacmillan, 1870 - 328 Seiten |
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... bringing it into the conditions under which it now exists . we is nd _nd ] an ust 01 At the same time various prudential considerations must determine for us how far up we will endeavour mall to trace the course of its history . There ...
... bringing it into the conditions under which it now exists . we is nd _nd ] an ust 01 At the same time various prudential considerations must determine for us how far up we will endeavour mall to trace the course of its history . There ...
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... bring about , are the very ones which we are most likely to fail in observing . So many causes contribute to withdraw them from notice , to veil their operation , to conceal their significance , that , save by a very few , they will ...
... bring about , are the very ones which we are most likely to fail in observing . So many causes contribute to withdraw them from notice , to veil their operation , to conceal their significance , that , save by a very few , they will ...
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... bring us to the age of Spenser , and not more than eight to set us in the time of Chaucer and Wiclif . No one , con- templating this whole term , will deny the immensity of the change within these eight memories , And yet , for all this ...
... bring us to the age of Spenser , and not more than eight to set us in the time of Chaucer and Wiclif . No one , con- templating this whole term , will deny the immensity of the change within these eight memories , And yet , for all this ...
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... bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his Name's sake . ' Here are forty - five words , and only the three in italics are Latin ; for each of which it would be easy to substitute one of home growth ; little more , that is ...
... bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his Name's sake . ' Here are forty - five words , and only the three in italics are Latin ; for each of which it would be easy to substitute one of home growth ; little more , that is ...
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... bring this lecture to a close . After ascribing to our language ' a veritable power of expression , such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men , ' he goes on to say , ' Its highly spiritual genius , and ...
... bring this lecture to a close . After ascribing to our language ' a veritable power of expression , such as perhaps never stood at the command of any other language of men , ' he goes on to say , ' Its highly spiritual genius , and ...
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adjectives adopted affirm already altogether Anglo-Saxon Bacon Battle of Hastings become Ben Jonson black guard called century Chaucer Compare Conquest Coverdale curious derived dialects Dictionary drop Dryden earlier early edit employed England English language English tongue etymology example existence express fact foreign French words Fuller G. C. Lewis Gabriel Harvey gain German Glossary Gothic Gothic languages grammar Greek Grimm guage Hacket Holland hundred instance Italian Jeremy Taylor Jonson langue Latin words lecture less letters literature lives meaning Milton modern native never Norman Norman Conquest obsolete once passage period perished Piers Ploughman plural poet poetry possessed present preterite pronunciation prose remains Saxon scholar sense Shakespeare sound Spanish speak speech spelling spelt Spenser spoken Sprache survive syllable termination things tion trace translation true verb Version VIII vocables vocabulary whole Wiclif write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 291 - Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Seite 35 - The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled.
Seite 24 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil ; for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Seite 95 - 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...
Seite 94 - 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 286 - The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Seite 128 - Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish: then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile: then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced : and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
Seite 140 - Yet it must be allowed to the present age, that the tongue in general is so much refined since Shakespeare's time, that many of his words, and more of his phrases, are scarce intelligible. And of those which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse ; and his whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions, that it is as affected as it is obscure.
Seite 198 - The persons plural keep the termination of the first person singular. In former times, till about the reign of king Henry the eighth, they were wont to be formed by adding en ; thus, loven, sayen, complainen. But now (whatsoever is the cause) it hath quite grown out of use, and that other so generally prevailed, that I dare not presume to set this afoot again : albeit (to tell you my opinion) I am persuaded that the lack hereof well considered will be found a great blemish to our tongue.
Seite 36 - 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.