Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English LanguageSheldon, 1876 - 467 sider |
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Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language Richard Grant White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1872 |
Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language Richard Grant White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
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absurd action adjective Æneid Anglo-Saxon authority British called century character Chaucer clarinet common compound confusion correct couple crime criticism dative dictionary distinction eminent English language etymology example existence express fact following passage French gender gentleman give grammar grammarians Greek guage heard hundred idiom ignorance inflection instance Julius Cæsar king lady Latin Latin language learned less letter lish meaning meant merely misuse mood newspapers noun object optative mood participle passive passive voice perfect periphrasis person perversion phrase plural possession predicated present preterite pronoun question readers reason reputation risum seems sense sentence Shakespeare simple singular speak speakers speech stand-point style substantive sure tence tense thing thou thought tion usage verb verbal verbal noun vice VIOLINCELLO voice Webster's Dictionary William Lilly woman word writers written wrote
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Side 56 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Side 253 - Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately ; and that night they caught nothing.
Side 104 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Side 341 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Side 239 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon! tell me, Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? — Do they call "virtue
Side 251 - Lupin was, comforted by the mere voice and presence of such a man; and, though he had merely said 'a verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person...
Side 57 - The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects.
Side 290 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Side 60 - He can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Side 204 - And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls : all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.