A History of Modern Colloquial EnglishT. F. Unwin, Limited, 1920 - 398 sivua |
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3rd Pers Alleyne appears Ascham Basire become Bokenam Cavendish Caxton Cely Papers Chaucer Chron Class dialect colloquial common consonant dialect diphthong documents earlier early East Midland Editha eighteenth century Elizabeth Ellis Ellis ii Elyot Euphues examples expressed fifteenth century Fortescue French frequent front vowel Gabriel Harvey Gregory ibid influence Kentish Lady Sussex Lady Wentworth language later Latimer lengthened letters Lincs London dialect London English Lord Berners Lttrs Machyn Marg Middle English Midland noted Nouns occasional spellings occurs Palladius Paston Paston Letters Pecok perhaps Pprs Pres present present-day Pret probably pronounced pronunciation prose Received Standard regard Regional dialect rhymes seventeenth century Shillingford short shortening Sing Sir Thos sixteenth sound Southern speakers speech Standard English Stewkley suffix Suffolk survives texts unrounded unstressed syllables usage Verbs Verney Mem Verney Memoirs vulgar Wolsey words writes written
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Sivu 24 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Sivu 151 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory.
Sivu 151 - There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality ; whatever hath no beginning, may be confident of no end. All others have a dependent being, and within the reach of destruction, which is the peculiar...
Sivu 151 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Sivu 150 - For although a Poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him...
Sivu 149 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Sivu 152 - ... can produce nothing so courtly writ, or which expresses so much the conversation of a gentleman, as Sir John Suckling; nothing so even, sweet, and flowing as Mr. Waller; nothing so majestic, so correct, as Sir John Denham; nothing so elevated, so copious, and full of spirit as Mr.
Sivu 151 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Sivu 109 - Go, soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand ! Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.
Sivu 149 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth 35 with the person.