Parts of Speech: Essays on EnglishScribner, 1901 - 350 páginas |
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... English language belongs to the peoples who speak it - that it is their own pre- cious possession , to deal with at their pleasure and at their peril . The fact itself ought to be obvious enough to all of us ; and yet there would be no ...
... English language belongs to the peoples who speak it - that it is their own pre- cious possession , to deal with at their pleasure and at their peril . The fact itself ought to be obvious enough to all of us ; and yet there would be no ...
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Essays on English Brander Matthews. PAGE 3 29 ' CONTENTS I The Stock that Speaks the Language II The Future of the Language III The English Language in the United States . · IV The Language in Great Britain V Americanisms Once More ...
Essays on English Brander Matthews. PAGE 3 29 ' CONTENTS I The Stock that Speaks the Language II The Future of the Language III The English Language in the United States . · IV The Language in Great Britain V Americanisms Once More ...
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... English literature has always been at its best , lyric and dramatic ; and the men who speak English have always been indi- vidual and independent , every man ready to fight for his own hand ; and the English language has gone on its own ...
... English literature has always been at its best , lyric and dramatic ; and the men who speak English have always been indi- vidual and independent , every man ready to fight for his own hand ; and the English language has gone on its own ...
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Essays on English Brander Matthews. spite of the efforts of pedants and pedagogs to bind it and to stifle it , and ever insisting on re- newing its freshness as best it could . Develop- ment there has been in language and in literature ...
Essays on English Brander Matthews. spite of the efforts of pedants and pedagogs to bind it and to stifle it , and ever insisting on re- newing its freshness as best it could . Develop- ment there has been in language and in literature ...
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... English race received bap- tism , those which seemed to me rightest , those I have gathered , and rejected the rest . " 66 Law and language - these are the unrelaxing bands that hold a race firmly together . There are now two main ...
... English race received bap- tism , those which seemed to me rightest , those I have gathered , and rejected the rest . " 66 Law and language - these are the unrelaxing bands that hold a race firmly together . There are now two main ...
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Página 272 - THE skies they were ashen and sober, The leaves they were crisped and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir — It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Página 259 - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain!
Página 304 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Página 271 - I had gazed perhaps two minutes' space, Joanna, looking in my eyes, beheld That ravishment of mine, and laughed aloud. The Rock, like something starting from a sleep, Took up the lady's voice, and laughed again ; That ancient woman seated on Helm-crag Was ready with her cavern ; Hammar-scar, And the tall steep of Silver-how, sent forth A noise of laughter ; southern Loughrigg heard, And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone ; Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky Carried the lady's voice ; old...
Página 140 - His eye for a fine, telling phrase that will carry true is like that of a backwoodsman for a rifle ; and he will dredge you up a choice word from the mud of Cotton Mather himself.
Página 274 - Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are ; and, if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it only that thyself is here...
Página 259 - In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
Página 142 - When an ancient word for its sound and significancy deserves to be revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity, to restore it. All beyond this is superstition. Words are not like landmarks, so sacred as never to be removed ; customs are changed, and even statutes are silently repealed, when the reason ceases for which they were enacted.
Página 135 - Thus we cram one syllable, and cut off the rest, as the owl fattened her mice after she had bit off their legs, to prevent them from running away...
Página 247 - And as, if the concussions recur in a definite order, the body may husband its forces by adjusting the resistance needful for each concussion; so, if the syllables be rhythmically arranged, the mind may economize its energies by anticipating the attention required for each syllable.