Parts of Speech: Essays on EnglishScribner, 1901 - 350 páginas |
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... vocabulary and their syn- tax into conformity with that of the men who had shown themselves more powerful . Thus one of the Italic dialects was singled out by for- tune for an extraordinary future , and the other Italic dialects were ...
... vocabulary and their syn- tax into conformity with that of the men who had shown themselves more powerful . Thus one of the Italic dialects was singled out by for- tune for an extraordinary future , and the other Italic dialects were ...
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... vocabulary wherein our lan- guage surpasses all others . While the frame- work of English is Teutonic , we have for many things two names , one of Germanic origin and one of Romance . Our direct , homely words , that go straight to our ...
... vocabulary wherein our lan- guage surpasses all others . While the frame- work of English is Teutonic , we have for many things two names , one of Germanic origin and one of Romance . Our direct , homely words , that go straight to our ...
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... vocabulary of Flor- ence . Yet in the earlier stages of the develop- ment of English the language benefited by the fact that there was a local standard . The attempt of all to assimilate their speech to that of the inhabitants of London ...
... vocabulary of Flor- ence . Yet in the earlier stages of the develop- ment of English the language benefited by the fact that there was a local standard . The attempt of all to assimilate their speech to that of the inhabitants of London ...
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... vocabulary reveals the former superiority of the Dutch . And as modern science has extended its conquests , it has drawn on Greek for its terms of precision . Under this influx of foreign words , old and new , the framework of the ...
... vocabulary reveals the former superiority of the Dutch . And as modern science has extended its conquests , it has drawn on Greek for its terms of precision . Under this influx of foreign words , old and new , the framework of the ...
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... vocabulary ; but these are only trifles . The steamship and the railroad and the telegraph bring the American and the Briton and the Australian closer together nowadays than were the users of the Midland dialect when Chaucer set forth ...
... vocabulary ; but these are only trifles . The steamship and the railroad and the telegraph bring the American and the Briton and the Australian closer together nowadays than were the users of the Midland dialect when Chaucer set forth ...
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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.