The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pages |
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Ablaut accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglian Anglo-Saxon appears become called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect diphthong distinction Edition England English language example expression Extra fcap fact Faery Queene fcap flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guttural habit High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection John John Keble king Latin Layamon letter literary literature Lord Low Dutch meaning mind Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle person philology phonetic phrase plural poet poetry preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation relics rendered represented rhyme Robert of Gloucester Roman Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies sort sound speak speech spelling spelt Spenser stand substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax termination thee thing thou tion traces translation verb vowel Welsh writing written þæt þat
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Page 157 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Page 469 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, 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 354 - Women," long ago Sung by the morning star of song, who made His music heard below ; Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.
Page 210 - The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Page 182 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Page 383 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 414 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Page 146 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 592 - Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours, And they must have their food. Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon a throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come...
Page 372 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place...