On the Study of WordsMacmillan, 1900 - 365 páginas |
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... Language is the armoury of the human mind , and at once contains the trophies of its past , and the weapons of its future , conquests .'- COLERIDGE . ' Out , idle words , servants to shallow fools ! ' - Shakespeare . TWENTY SECOND ...
... Language is the armoury of the human mind , and at once contains the trophies of its past , and the weapons of its future , conquests .'- COLERIDGE . ' Out , idle words , servants to shallow fools ! ' - Shakespeare . TWENTY SECOND ...
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... language had been fuller and riper than my But abundant and ready to hand as are the materials for such a book , I did not ; while yet it seems to me that the subject is one to which it is beyond measure desirable that their attention ...
... language had been fuller and riper than my But abundant and ready to hand as are the materials for such a book , I did not ; while yet it seems to me that the subject is one to which it is beyond measure desirable that their attention ...
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... language , to purify it from the cor- ruptions which Time brings upon all things , and from which language has no exemption , and to endeavour to give distinctness and precision to whatever in it is confused , or obscure , or dimly seen ...
... language , to purify it from the cor- ruptions which Time brings upon all things , and from which language has no exemption , and to endeavour to give distinctness and precision to whatever in it is confused , or obscure , or dimly seen ...
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... language as ' fossil poetry . ' He evidently means that just as in some fossil , curious and beautiful shapes of vegetable or animal life , the graceful fern or the finely vertebrated lizard , such as now , it may be , have been extinct ...
... language as ' fossil poetry . ' He evidently means that just as in some fossil , curious and beautiful shapes of vegetable or animal life , the graceful fern or the finely vertebrated lizard , such as now , it may be , have been extinct ...
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... language ' which this corruption had invaded , but a decree of the But language is fossil history as well . What a L 9 Morality in Words .
... language ' which this corruption had invaded , but a decree of the But language is fossil history as well . What a L 9 Morality in Words .
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Página 15 - to see what he would call them, and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
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Página 34 - WAS this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium?
Página 101 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Página 57 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Página 33 - No man can read this poem without being struck by the fitness and finish of the workmanship, so to speak, as well as by the chastened and unpretending loftiness of thought which pervades the whole." — GLOBE. Words from the PoetS. Selected by the Editor of
Página 100 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
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Página 38 - Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn; For a good poet's made, as well as born. And such wert thou! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well turned, and true filed lines; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.