English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a History of Its Origin and Development. Designed for Use in Colleges and SchoolsHarper, 1855 - 754 pages |
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... king- dom of Greece contains a population of about 900,000 . The language preserves a much nearer identity with the ancient Greek language than the Romanic languages do with the Latin . The term Romaic arose from the name Romaioi , or ...
... king- dom of Greece contains a population of about 900,000 . The language preserves a much nearer identity with the ancient Greek language than the Romanic languages do with the Latin . The term Romaic arose from the name Romaioi , or ...
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... king to slave ? The last , best friend , Our cares to end , Thy empire is in the grave . When all have fled , Thou giv'st a bed , Wherein we calmly sleep : The wounds long healed , The dim eyes sealed , That long did wake and weep ...
... king to slave ? The last , best friend , Our cares to end , Thy empire is in the grave . When all have fled , Thou giv'st a bed , Wherein we calmly sleep : The wounds long healed , The dim eyes sealed , That long did wake and weep ...
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... King Christian stood by the lofty mast In mist and smoke . His sword was hammering so fast , Through Gothic helm and brain it passed , Then sank each hostile hulk and mast In mist and smoke . Fly , shouted they , fly , he who can ! Who ...
... King Christian stood by the lofty mast In mist and smoke . His sword was hammering so fast , Through Gothic helm and brain it passed , Then sank each hostile hulk and mast In mist and smoke . Fly , shouted they , fly , he who can ! Who ...
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... kings , in A.D. 449 invited Hengist and Horsa , with their followers , to fight his battles . " Then , sad relief , from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar , deep - blooming , strong , And yellow - haired , the blue - eyed ...
... kings , in A.D. 449 invited Hengist and Horsa , with their followers , to fight his battles . " Then , sad relief , from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar , deep - blooming , strong , And yellow - haired , the blue - eyed ...
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... kings ; under Elrian , Owen , and Prince Arthur , with his knights of the round table , celebrated by the British bards . To escape from the exterminating sword of their enemies , the F natives , as soon as they saw that resistance was ...
... kings ; under Elrian , Owen , and Prince Arthur , with his knights of the round table , celebrated by the British bards . To escape from the exterminating sword of their enemies , the F natives , as soon as they saw that resistance was ...
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accent adjective ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon branch breath called Celtic Celts character classification combination common Compose a sentence compound Conquest CONSONANT SOUNDS consonantal elements consonantal sounds Danish dative denotes dialect Diphthong diversities elementary sound England English language etymological euphony express family of languages Finnic French Frisians Gaelic German Give glish Gothic language grammar Greek GRIMM's law guage Icelandic Improper Diphthong Italian kings Latin language Latin words long sound Low Germanic means mind mouth nasal nations natural Norman Norman Conquest Norman-French nouns objects origin orthoepy orthography peculiarities Philippe de Thaun phonetic elements plural pronounced pronunciation QUESTIONS UNDER CHAPTER race relation represented Roman Sanscrit Saxon Scandinavian Shemitic short sound Slavonic sometimes sonant SPECIMEN spoken language stock of languages surd syllable term Teutonic th in thin thee things thou tion tongue verbs vocal voice vowel vowel sounds Welsh word derived καὶ
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Page 620 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 688 - HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Page 662 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 498 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 656 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 516 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 712 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 630 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Page 628 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 57 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...