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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... present state , carried into Iceland by the first Nor- wegian refugees in the ninth century , and embalmed there among the snow and ice . There is so little difference between the present writing and the most ancient records , that ...
... present state , carried into Iceland by the first Nor- wegian refugees in the ninth century , and embalmed there among the snow and ice . There is so little difference between the present writing and the most ancient records , that ...
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... PRESENT DANISH . Kong Christian stod ved höien mast I rög og damp . Hans værge hamrede saa fast , At Gothens hielm og hierne brast , Da sank hver fiendtlight speil og mast I rög og damp . Flye , skreg de , flye , hvad flygte kan ! Hvo ...
... PRESENT DANISH . Kong Christian stod ved höien mast I rög og damp . Hans værge hamrede saa fast , At Gothens hielm og hierne brast , Da sank hver fiendtlight speil og mast I rög og damp . Flye , skreg de , flye , hvad flygte kan ! Hvo ...
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... present time spoken only by the peas- antry , Polish being the language of the middle and upper classes . Thus excluded from the influences of refinement and civilization , it has preserved its peculiar structure more faithfully than ...
... present time spoken only by the peas- antry , Polish being the language of the middle and upper classes . Thus excluded from the influences of refinement and civilization , it has preserved its peculiar structure more faithfully than ...
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... present English , few as they are , fall into four classes . 1. Those that are of late introduction , and can not be called . original and constituent parts of the language . Such are the words flannel , crowd ( a fiddle ) , from the ...
... present English , few as they are , fall into four classes . 1. Those that are of late introduction , and can not be called . original and constituent parts of the language . Such are the words flannel , crowd ( a fiddle ) , from the ...
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... present day are called by the Britons in Wales , and by the Highlanders in Scotland , in Cam- brian and Gaelic , not Angles or English , but Saxons . After the entire subjugation of the Britons , the West Saxons grew in influence and ...
... present day are called by the Britons in Wales , and by the Highlanders in Scotland , in Cam- brian and Gaelic , not Angles or English , but Saxons . After the entire subjugation of the Britons , the West Saxons grew in influence and ...
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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...