An Outline of the Elements of the English Language: For the Use of StudentsC. Scribner, 1863 - 220 páginas |
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... never became blended with them . The Romans held the country by an army of occupation , and when they withdrew , the country they had occupied fell a prey to the Saxons . The Britons , however , did not submit with- out a long and ...
... never became blended with them . The Romans held the country by an army of occupation , and when they withdrew , the country they had occupied fell a prey to the Saxons . The Britons , however , did not submit with- out a long and ...
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... never possessed letters , but rather despised them till a late period , they had no way of preserving their laws , history , and popular songs , save as they were handed down from one generation to another by their poets . Hence the ...
... never possessed letters , but rather despised them till a late period , they had no way of preserving their laws , history , and popular songs , save as they were handed down from one generation to another by their poets . Hence the ...
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... never interchanged , and but comparatively few words from their vocabularies . And these few were commonly such names of objects as were new to the re- spective languages that adopted them . The difference in the character of the Celts ...
... never interchanged , and but comparatively few words from their vocabularies . And these few were commonly such names of objects as were new to the re- spective languages that adopted them . The difference in the character of the Celts ...
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... never sufficiently so to conceal the diversity of its origin . This appears in the variations of inflection and orthography to be observed in different writers and in the same writer at different times . " Its syntax is irregular and 1 ...
... never sufficiently so to conceal the diversity of its origin . This appears in the variations of inflection and orthography to be observed in different writers and in the same writer at different times . " Its syntax is irregular and 1 ...
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... never developed . It is a dead language , and , unlike the classic languages of Greece and Rome , is too rude , too fragmentary , too irregular to be revived . " It is intelli- gible , and that is all . What is written in it can in a ...
... never developed . It is a dead language , and , unlike the classic languages of Greece and Rome , is too rude , too fragmentary , too irregular to be revived . " It is intelli- gible , and that is all . What is written in it can in a ...
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An Outline of the Elements of the English Language: For the Use of Students Nathaniel George Clark Visualização integral - 1888 |
An Outline of the Elements of the English Language: For the Use of Students Nathaniel George Clark Visualização integral - 1864 |
An Outline of the Elements of the English Language: For the Use of Students Nathaniel George Clark Visualização integral - 1863 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
adjectives Anglo-Saxon better called Canterbury Tales Celtic Celts changes character Chaucer Chronicle classical common Craik culture developed dialect diction Dictionary edition Edward elements England English language English literature expression foreign forms fourteenth century French school French words grammatical guage hath hearty Hexapla idiom idiomatic inflections influence Italian literature Jeremy Taylor Langlande large number later Layamon learned lish literary Lord Lord Macaulay Marsh metrical romances Milton modern moral native Norman old English old Saxon original Ormulum orthography peculiar period Piers Ploughman plural poems poetic poetry poets political popular printed pronoun prose religious revival rhyme Roger Ascham Romance words sayd scholars Second Series seide Shakspeare songs specimen speech spirit stewarde style thær thaet ther thou thought tongue translation true truth unto verbs verse vocabulary William Caxton words of Latin writers written Wycliffe
Passagens conhecidas
Página 193 - I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Página 205 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Página 145 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Página 194 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 203 - ... in waste places far from danger of law, maketh his mantle his house, and under it covereth himself from the wrath of heaven, from the offence of the earth, and from the sight of men. When it raineth, it is his pent-house ; when it bloweth, it is his tent ; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle.
Página 145 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a u 3 few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Página 155 - If any one wish to know what manner of man he was, or what worship he had, or of how many lands he were the lord, we will describe him as we have known him ; for we looked on him,- and some while lived in his herd.
Página 203 - In summer he can wear it loose, in winter he can wrap it close ; at all times he can use it; never heavy, never cumbersome. Likewise, for a rebell it is as serviceable.
Página 206 - So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord ? And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Página 198 - For the philosopher, setting down with thorny argument the bare rule, is so hard of utterance, and so misty to be conceived, that one that hath no other guide but him shall wade in him till he be old before he shall find sufficient cause to be honest...