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... Shakespeare puts into Hamlet's mouth ; when , speaking of his father's brother who had married his mother , he characterizes him as " A little more than kin , and less than kind . " now do the words ' kind ' and ' kindness.
... Shakespeare puts into Hamlet's mouth ; when , speaking of his father's brother who had married his mother , he characterizes him as " A little more than kin , and less than kind . " now do the words ' kind ' and ' kindness.
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... Shakespeare , who will not allow his * On the general subject of the reaction of a people's lan- guage on that people's moral life , I will adduce some words of Milton , who , as he did so much to enlarge , to enrich , to purify our ...
... Shakespeare , who will not allow his * On the general subject of the reaction of a people's lan- guage on that people's moral life , I will adduce some words of Milton , who , as he did so much to enlarge , to enrich , to purify our ...
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... Shakespeare puts into the mouth of our Fourth Henry , explain well the attractions that at one time made Palestine the magnet of all Christendom . the enthusiasm spent itself , the making of this pilgrimage degenerated into a mere ...
... Shakespeare puts into the mouth of our Fourth Henry , explain well the attractions that at one time made Palestine the magnet of all Christendom . the enthusiasm spent itself , the making of this pilgrimage degenerated into a mere ...
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... - sion which the Spaniards made upon all Europe in the fifteenth and following century . Now the " As he , whose brow with homely biggen bound . ” Shakespeare . 2 Hen . 4. Act . 4. Sc . 4 . word ' bigote , ' means in Spanish ' moustachio.
... - sion which the Spaniards made upon all Europe in the fifteenth and following century . Now the " As he , whose brow with homely biggen bound . ” Shakespeare . 2 Hen . 4. Act . 4. Sc . 4 . word ' bigote , ' means in Spanish ' moustachio.
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... Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost , where Armado , the " fantastical Spaniard , " describes the king " his familiar , as sometimes being pleased to lean on his poor shoulder , and dally with his moustachio . " That they themselves ...
... Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost , where Armado , the " fantastical Spaniard , " describes the king " his familiar , as sometimes being pleased to lean on his poor shoulder , and dally with his moustachio . " That they themselves ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adjectives affirm altogether Anglo-Saxon become Ben Jonson Bible black guard bring called century changes Chaucer Cheaper Edition Chimæra Cicero COMPOSITE LANGUAGE curious derived Dictionary doubt Dryden earlier early employed England English language English words etymology example exist express fact familiar feel French French language Fuller Gabriel Harvey German grammatical Greek guage honour instance invented Italian Jeremy Taylor Jonson Latin language learned lecture less letters living Lord manner matter meaning merely Milton mind modern moral nation native never observe obsolete Octavo once originally ourselves passage period person Plautus poet possess præterites present pronunciation Quintilian RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Roman Saxon seek sense Shakespeare shape signify sometimes sound speak speech spelling spelt Spenser spirit spoken suppose survives syllable things thought tion tongue trace translation true truth vast number verb vocables Wiclif writing written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 176 - 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 57 - ... 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...
Seite 37 - 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 8 - With Additions by Professors AGASSIZ, PIERCE, and GRAY; 12 Maps and Engravings on Steel, some Coloured, and copious Index.
Seite 53 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
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 58 - 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 38 - 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 55 - 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 17 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.