Lectures on the English Language |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page 4
... elements , as means of resistance against an influence which sought , first , to denationalize , and then to assimilate them all to its own social and governmental system . Hence , contemporaneously with the wars of that eventful crisis ...
... elements , as means of resistance against an influence which sought , first , to denationalize , and then to assimilate them all to its own social and governmental system . Hence , contemporaneously with the wars of that eventful crisis ...
Page 15
... elements of language and of social life in new and diverse combinations . That the English tongue , and the men who speak it , will yet achieve great victories in the field of mind , great works in the world of sense , we have ample ...
... elements of language and of social life in new and diverse combinations . That the English tongue , and the men who speak it , will yet achieve great victories in the field of mind , great works in the world of sense , we have ample ...
Page 36
... elements . It is , there- fore , indigenous , if not aboriginal , and as exclusively local and national in its character as English itself . * But independently of such internal evidence , it is very improb- able that at a period when ...
... elements . It is , there- fore , indigenous , if not aboriginal , and as exclusively local and national in its character as English itself . * But independently of such internal evidence , it is very improb- able that at a period when ...
Page 37
... element predominated over the Scandinavian . * who employ dialects held to be cognate . At least five principal varieties or patois are recognized in modern Frisic , and each of these is subdivided inte several local jargons . A Frisic ...
... element predominated over the Scandinavian . * who employ dialects held to be cognate . At least five principal varieties or patois are recognized in modern Frisic , and each of these is subdivided inte several local jargons . A Frisic ...
Page 39
... element in the population , appears the most probable reason that can now be assigned , why a people , who , in large proportion , retained for themselves and their several prov- inces the appellation of Saxon , and who were known to ...
... element in the population , appears the most probable reason that can now be assigned , why a people , who , in large proportion , retained for themselves and their several prov- inces the appellation of Saxon , and who were known to ...
Contents
1 | |
23 | |
45 | |
66 | |
85 | |
130 | |
148 | |
189 | |
310 | |
325 | |
351 | |
369 | |
429 | |
443 | |
464 | |
489 | |
226 | |
243 | |
255 | |
274 | |
293 | |
511 | |
529 | |
551 | |
568 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accent adjective alliteration ancient Anglo-Saxon articulation authors belonging Bible called century character Chaucer classical common compound consonant corresponding derived dialect diction dictionary distinct early edition elements employed England English language English words etymology example expression fact familiar foreign French gender German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage Hence Icelandic important inflections influence instance intellectual Italian language Latin Layamon Lecture less letters linguistic literature meaning modern moral nation native natural nomenclature noun objects obsolete occur original Ormulum orthoepy orthography participle particles period persons philological phrase Piers Ploughman plural poetic poetry possessive present printed pronounced pronunciation prose prosody radical reference remarkable respect rhymes Robert of Gloucester Romance roots Saxon sense Shakespeare signification sound speak speech strong inflection syllables syntactical syntax thing thought tion tongue translation verb verbal verse vocables vocabulary vowel weak inflection writers Wycliffe Wycliffite
Popular passages
Page 141 - If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 60 - At once on the eastern cliff of Paradise He lights, and to his proper shape returns A seraph winged : six wings he wore to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament ; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold, And colours dipt in heaven ; the third his feet Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail, Sky-tinctured grain.
Page 142 - But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Page 61 - 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.
Page 535 - THE ordinary Bible read in the church, commonly called the Bishops Bible, to be followed, and as little altered, as the truth of the original will permit.
Page 56 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 434 - By rejecting the posts, we light the savage fires, we bind the victims. This day we undertake to render account to the widows and orphans whom our decision will make, to the wretches that will be roasted at the stake, to our country, and I do not deem it too serious to say, to conscience and to God.
Page 537 - Truly, good Christian Reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
Page 537 - ... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against ; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark.
Page 113 - It was the tomb of a crusader ; of one of those military enthusiasts, who so strangely mingled religion and romance, and whose exploits form the connecting link between fact and fiction ; between the history and the fairy tale.