The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 Seiten |
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient Anglian Anglo-Saxon appears Ballad Society become belongs called century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonant dialect distinction elder emphasis English language example expression fact Faerie Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage habit Hebrew illustration infinitive inflection instances interjection King Latin Layamon letter literature means metre mind modern English native nature noun observe onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle peculiar period person philological phrasal phrases plural poem poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation Randle Cotgrave reader rhyme rhythm Robert of Gloucester Roman Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signified sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax thing thou tion tone traces translation verb vowel William Cowper writing þæt þat
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 397 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears...
Seite 510 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at' the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Seite 374 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Seite 101 - Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
Seite 470 - Roy or any or either of them their or any or either of their heirs executors administrators...
Seite 168 - This picture, placed these busts between, Gives satire all its strength : Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length.
Seite 268 - Dropt to the cove, and watch'd the great sea fall, Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame: And down the wave and in the flame was borne A naked babe, and rode to Merlin's feet, Who stoopt and caught the babe, and cried "The King! Here is an heir for Uther!
Seite 497 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Seite 447 - And some among you held, that if the King Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow : Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land is given to plough, Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done...
Seite 497 - If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.