On the Study of WordsMacmillan, 1900 - 365 páginas |
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... true in regard of a foreign tongue , how much truer ought it to be in regard of our own , of our ' mother tongue , ' as we affec- tionately call it . A great writer not very long departed from us has borne witness at once to the ...
... true in regard of a foreign tongue , how much truer ought it to be in regard of our own , of our ' mother tongue , ' as we affec- tionately call it . A great writer not very long departed from us has borne witness at once to the ...
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... true explanation is plain from a fact which the same writer records , that , although inveterate askers , they never showed the slightest sense of obligation or of gratitude when they obtained what they sought ; never saying more ...
... true explanation is plain from a fact which the same writer records , that , although inveterate askers , they never showed the slightest sense of obligation or of gratitude when they obtained what they sought ; never saying more ...
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... true . I think we may ob serve very often the way in which controversies , after long eddying backward and forward , hither and thither , concentrate themselves at last in some single word which is felt to contain all that the one party ...
... true . I think we may ob serve very often the way in which controversies , after long eddying backward and forward , hither and thither , concentrate themselves at last in some single word which is felt to contain all that the one party ...
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... true to nature , when in his Prometheus Bound he makes Strength tauntingly to remind Prome- theus , or The Prudent , how ill his name and the lot which he has made for himself agreed , bound as he is with adamantine chains to his rock ...
... true to nature , when in his Prometheus Bound he makes Strength tauntingly to remind Prome- theus , or The Prudent , how ill his name and the lot which he has made for himself agreed , bound as he is with adamantine chains to his rock ...
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... true and would come true , in this , and not in any altogether unreasoning superstition , lay the root of the carefulness of the Romans that in the enlisting of soldiers names of good omen , such as Valerius , Salvius , Secundus ...
... true and would come true , in this , and not in any altogether unreasoning superstition , lay the root of the carefulness of the Romans that in the enlisting of soldiers names of good omen , such as Valerius , Salvius , Secundus ...
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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.
Página 22 - Morte d'Arthur.— SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. "It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
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.
Página 16 - Cowper's TASK: AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ. ; TIROCINIUM, or a Review of the Schools; and THE HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN.
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.