Intensives and Down-toners: A Study in English AdverbsC. Winter's universitätsbuchhandlung, 1901 - 156 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Academy adjective adjectives and adverbs adverb affirmative sentences anon Carlyle Chaucer Christmas Carol Chuzzlewit cites clause clever cold this morning colloquial Compare contemporary English Dictionary Dutch early Engl example exemplified express the sense favour Febr Fitzedward Hall function gentleman George Eliot Germ given high degree Househ howler Humphrey's Clock ibid instances Intensives and Down-toners Jude the Obscure lady Literary World litotes Little Dorrit Macaulay mark Master Humphrey's Clock Mätzner means completely modal Modern English negative passage phrasal conjunction phrase Piers the Plowman poor as William poor than William pretty principal sentence Punch pure quotations referred Reviews sentence-modifier Shakespeare Skeat Sketches by Boz slang speaker statement Stoffel strong strong-stressed sure Tauchn Thackeray Tom Jones Troilus and Criseyde Vanity Fair vastly verbs verray weak stress word word-modifier word-sentence-modifier writers young
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Página 42 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 114 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Página 102 - They were hardly distinguishable, you would think, when they were apart, though extremely different when together. What made their enmity -the more entertaining to all the rest of their sex was, that in detraction from each other, neither could fall upon terms which did not hit herself as much as her adversary.
Página 106 - Not contented with enriching our language by words absolutely new, my fair countrywomen have gone still farther, and improved it by the application and extension of old ones to various and very different significations. They take a word...
Página 106 - I comprehend all fine gentlemen too, not knowing in truth where to place them properly, is vastly obliged, or vastly offended, vastly glad, or vastly sorry. Large objects are vastly great, small ones are vastly little; and I had lately the pleasure to hear a fine woman pronounce, by a happy metonymy, a very small gold snuff-box that was produced in company to be vastly pretty, because it was vastly little.
Página 94 - Fag. Excuse my glove, Thomas:— I'm devilish glad to see you, my lad. Why, my prince of charioteers, you look as hearty! — but who the deuce thought of seeing you in Bath?
Página 19 - Here, will you have any? Oh good! How sweet it is! Mr. Tattle is all over sweet, his peruke is sweet, and his gloves are sweet, and his handkerchief is sweet, pure sweet, sweeter than roses.
Página 75 - Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. "A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!