The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1873 - 679 páginas |
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon appears become called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction Dutch elder English language example expression fact Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage guttural habit Hebrew High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Moso-Gothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle peculiar person philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation rendered retained rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translation verb verbal vowel William Cowper writing written
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Página 464 - 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...
Página 490 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 164 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Página 600 - 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.
Página 174 - But timorous mortals start and shrink To cross this narrow sea, And linger shivering on the brink, And fear to launch away.
Página 406 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Página 437 - 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.
Página 627 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Página 587 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Página 339 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.