Lectures on the English LanguageMurray, 1863 - 498 pages |
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... fact . But a better era has commenced . Englishmen have learned from Conti- nental linguists to do what native scholarship and industry had hitherto failed to accomplish ; and we may hope that , * The recent admirable editions of ...
... fact . But a better era has commenced . Englishmen have learned from Conti- nental linguists to do what native scholarship and industry had hitherto failed to accomplish ; and we may hope that , * The recent admirable editions of ...
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... fact , and its explanation is not obvious . I can by no means ascribe the difference to an inherent inaptitude on ... facts Wycliffite translations of the Scriptures , are exceedingly valuable contributions to English philology , and in ...
... fact , and its explanation is not obvious . I can by no means ascribe the difference to an inherent inaptitude on ... facts Wycliffite translations of the Scriptures , are exceedingly valuable contributions to English philology , and in ...
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... fact that we , in general , require a more comprehensive knowledge of our own tongue than any other people . Except in mere mechanical matters , and even there far more imperfectly , we have adopted the principle of the division of ...
... fact that we , in general , require a more comprehensive knowledge of our own tongue than any other people . Except in mere mechanical matters , and even there far more imperfectly , we have adopted the principle of the division of ...
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... fact of the general use of the whole English vocabulary among us is a dangerous cause of corruption of speech , against which the careful study of our language is an important antidote . Things much used inevitably become much worn ...
... fact of the general use of the whole English vocabulary among us is a dangerous cause of corruption of speech , against which the careful study of our language is an important antidote . Things much used inevitably become much worn ...
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... fact , are these self - speaking muscles to those who have studied their dialect , that it is a current adage , that language was given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts . Ferdinand returned to Naples after the revolutionary ...
... fact , are these self - speaking muscles to those who have studied their dialect , that it is a current adage , that language was given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts . Ferdinand returned to Naples after the revolutionary ...
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Page 356 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 164 - 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 71 - 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...
Page 161 - When we were taken up stairs," says he in one of his letters, " a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Page 66 - 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 511 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 629 - 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 130 - In one corner was a stagnant pool of water, surrounding an island of muck; there were several half-drowned fowls crowded together under a cart, among which was a miserable, crest-fallen cock, drenched out of all life and spirit, his drooping tail matted, as it were, into a single feather, along which the water trickled from his back...
Page 333 - AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET W. SHAKESPEARE. WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid...
Page 164 - When you are an anvil, hold you still ; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.