An Outline of the Elements of the English Language: For the Use of StudentsScibner's, 1888 - 220 sivua |
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adjectives Anglo-Saxon better called Canterbury Tales Celts character Chaucer Chronicle civil classes classical common Conquest Craik culture derived developed dialect diction earlier edition Edward elements England English language English literature expression foreign forms fourteenth century Geoffrey of Monmouth grammatical guage hath idiom inflections influence King Kyng Langlande large number later Layamon learned lish literary lond Lord Marsh metrical romances mind modern English moral never Norman old English old Saxon original Ormulum orthography peculiar period Piers Ploughman plural poems poetic poetry poets political popular portion printed pronouns pronunciation prose religious revival rhyme Robert Langlande Robert of Gloucester Romance words sayd scholars Second Series seide Shakspeare songs speech spirit style syntax thaet ther thirteenth century thou thought translation unto verbs verse vocabulary William Caxton William the Conqueror words of Latin writers written Wycliffe
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Sivu 193 - I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Sivu 205 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Sivu 145 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtile disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain workingmen, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Sivu 194 - The turtle to her make 96 hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs; The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale; The adder all her.
Sivu 200 - And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely : for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Sivu 203 - ... in waste places far from danger of law, maketh his mantle his house, and under it covereth himself from the wrath of heaven, from the offence of the earth, and from the sight of men. When it raineth, it is his pent-house ; when it bloweth, it is his tent ; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle.
Sivu 145 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a u 3 few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Sivu 200 - And the steward said within himself, what shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship ? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed. I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship they may receive me into their houses...
Sivu 206 - So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord ? And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
Sivu 198 - For the philosopher, setting down with thorny argument the bare rule, is so hard of utterance, and so misty to be conceived, that one that hath no other guide but him shall wade in him till he be old before he shall find sufficient cause to be honest...