English, Past and Present: Eight LecturesC. Scribner & Company, 1868 - 325 Seiten |
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... kind of coasting vessel well known to seafaring men , the Spanish ' urca ; ' thus in Oldys ' Life of Raleigh : Their galleons , galleasses , gallies , urcas , and zabras were miserably shattered . ' † A ' maroon ' is a negro who has ...
... kind of coasting vessel well known to seafaring men , the Spanish ' urca ; ' thus in Oldys ' Life of Raleigh : Their galleons , galleasses , gallies , urcas , and zabras were miserably shattered . ' † A ' maroon ' is a negro who has ...
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... kind , which ( to merit the name of lyrical ) must be in the state of flux and reflux , or , generally , of agitation , also requires the Saxon element of our language . And why ? Because the Saxon is the aboriginal element ; the basis ...
... kind , which ( to merit the name of lyrical ) must be in the state of flux and reflux , or , generally , of agitation , also requires the Saxon element of our language . And why ? Because the Saxon is the aboriginal element ; the basis ...
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... kind ' having taken its place , while it lives with us and in the languages of the Scandinavian family . Others , on the contrary , after an existence longer or shorter with us , have finally disappeared here , while they still enjoy a ...
... kind ' having taken its place , while it lives with us and in the languages of the Scandinavian family . Others , on the contrary , after an existence longer or shorter with us , have finally disappeared here , while they still enjoy a ...
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... kind to do what once was done by inflection . To this subject , however , I shall have occasion by and bye to recur ; I will not therefore dwell upon it here . But the insuffi- ciency of the vocabulary , consequent in part on the ...
... kind to do what once was done by inflection . To this subject , however , I shall have occasion by and bye to recur ; I will not therefore dwell upon it here . But the insuffi- ciency of the vocabulary , consequent in part on the ...
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... kind , now got rid of , and on the whole happily got rid of , would have been retained . The language is infinitely richer now in syno- nyms than but for this settlement of French and Latin in its midst it would have been -- in words ...
... kind , now got rid of , and on the whole happily got rid of , would have been retained . The language is infinitely richer now in syno- nyms than but for this settlement of French and Latin in its midst it would have been -- in words ...
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Seite 160 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Seite 36 - It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness The memory of the dead passes into it.
Seite 26 - 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 98 - 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 285 - 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 96 - 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 158 - 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 38 - 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 94 - Upon the whole matter, a poet must first be certain that the word he would introduce is beautiful in the Latin; and is to consider, in the next place, whether it will agree with the English idiom. After this he ought to take the opinion of judicious friends, such as are learned in both languages; and lastly, since no man is infallible, let him use this licence very sparingly; for if too many foreign words are poured in upon us, it looks as if they were designed not to assist the natives, but to conquer...
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?