Words and Their Ways in English Speech: By James Bradstreet Greenough ... and George Lyman Kittredge ...Macmillan, 1901 - 431 páginas |
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... appear intensely prosaic , the processes that created them are identical with those of artistic poetry . This important truth may be further illustrated in the growth of words from a single root . 6 The Indo - European family of ...
... appear intensely prosaic , the processes that created them are identical with those of artistic poetry . This important truth may be further illustrated in the growth of words from a single root . 6 The Indo - European family of ...
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... appears in ' a pretty how - d'ye - do ! ' ' Here's rich- ness ! ' and other colloquialisms . Horace's ' splendide mendax ' is called a poetical oxymoron , but such phrases as ' a magnificent failure , ' ' a beautiful imbroglio , ' ' to ...
... appears in ' a pretty how - d'ye - do ! ' ' Here's rich- ness ! ' and other colloquialisms . Horace's ' splendide mendax ' is called a poetical oxymoron , but such phrases as ' a magnificent failure , ' ' a beautiful imbroglio , ' ' to ...
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... appear to be units are really instances of ' double comparison . ' Thus nearer is near ( comparative of nigh ) with a compara- tive suffix -er added . Similarly farther , nethermost , uppermost , and so с ; Thus we have subjected the ...
... appear to be units are really instances of ' double comparison . ' Thus nearer is near ( comparative of nigh ) with a compara- tive suffix -er added . Similarly farther , nethermost , uppermost , and so с ; Thus we have subjected the ...
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... appears to be useful in our further study of English words . on . Compare the incorrect furtherer and furtherest , which are simply examples of the same tendency that have not had the fortune to gain admittance to good linguistic ...
... appears to be useful in our further study of English words . on . Compare the incorrect furtherer and furtherest , which are simply examples of the same tendency that have not had the fortune to gain admittance to good linguistic ...
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... ( magpie ) is added to carry out the suggestion that cock refers to a bird . The suggestion that pie in this oath is the mass - book ' appears to be unfounded . · to us to - day.1 But they served his 34 WORDS AND THEIR WAYS.
... ( magpie ) is added to carry out the suggestion that cock refers to a bird . The suggestion that pie in this oath is the mass - book ' appears to be unfounded . · to us to - day.1 But they served his 34 WORDS AND THEIR WAYS.
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Words and Their Ways in English Speech James Bradstreet Greenough,George Lyman Kittredge Vista completa - 1914 |
Words and Their Ways in English Speech James Bradstreet Greenough,George Lyman Kittredge Vista de fragmentos - 1929 |
Términos y frases comunes
adjective adverb akin American Anglo-Saxon animals applied associations became become borrowed called century CHAPTER character Chaucer cognate colloquial comes common Compare compound connected corruption curious derived dialect effect Elizabethan England English language English word euphemism Euphuism example expression fact familiar feeling figure folk-etymology German Greek guage habit Hence idea Indo-European inflection influence instance Italian jocose kind lady later Latin word learned linguistic literally literary language literature Lond Lydford law meaning merely Middle English Modern English native word natural Norman noun obsolete Old French Old High German Old Norse older once meant one's ordinary origin participle particular peculiar person phrase plural poetical poetry popular etymology pronunciation Roman root Saxon seen Shakspere signified similar slang sometimes Spanish speak special sense stems suffix suggestion syllable synonym technical teetotum tendency term thing thought tion tive tongue utterance vague verb vocabulary vulgar whence
Pasajes populares
Página 9 - Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Página 217 - O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Página 11 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Página 36 - For th' other, as great clerks have done. He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts; Where Entity and Quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly; Where truth in person does appear, Like words congeal'd in northern air.
Página 207 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
Página 366 - Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Página 374 - And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side ? who ? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down.
Página 147 - Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin; It had an odd promiscuous tone, As if h...
Página 63 - ... some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and others are in possession of it. I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Página 392 - STRONG, LOGEMAN, and WHEELER.— Introduction to the Study of the History of Language. By HERBERT A. STRONG, MA, LL.D.