Essentials of English Speech and Literature: An Outline of the Origin and Growth of the Language, with Chapters on the Influence of the Bible, the Value of the Dictionary, and the Use of the Grammar in the Study of the English TongueFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1915 - 408 páginas |
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... lived the Cymry , a Bryttuonic branch ( Welsh - Breton ) of the Celts . Possibly a few Saxons , or Frisians , also dwelt on the eastern shores of Britain . The descent of Cæsar's troops upon the southern shore brought about a ...
... lived the Cymry , a Bryttuonic branch ( Welsh - Breton ) of the Celts . Possibly a few Saxons , or Frisians , also dwelt on the eastern shores of Britain . The descent of Cæsar's troops upon the southern shore brought about a ...
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... lived to complete , and died with the praise of God on his lips as the last sentence was penned . With the rise of the West Saxon kingdom in the early years of the ninth century the dialect of the West Saxons came to the front , and it ...
... lived to complete , and died with the praise of God on his lips as the last sentence was penned . With the rise of the West Saxon kingdom in the early years of the ninth century the dialect of the West Saxons came to the front , and it ...
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... lived about the time of the battle of Evesham ( 1265 ) . His work is a history of English affairs from the arrival in Britain of the fabulous Brutus to the close of the reign of Henry III . Its matter , in metrical verse , is drawn ...
... lived about the time of the battle of Evesham ( 1265 ) . His work is a history of English affairs from the arrival in Britain of the fabulous Brutus to the close of the reign of Henry III . Its matter , in metrical verse , is drawn ...
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... lived in England , chiefly at Windsor and Nottingham , and came under the influence of Chaucer's and Gower's verse , but the song he sang in " The King's Quhair " was the inspired song of the lover . One day while looking out of a ...
... lived in England , chiefly at Windsor and Nottingham , and came under the influence of Chaucer's and Gower's verse , but the song he sang in " The King's Quhair " was the inspired song of the lover . One day while looking out of a ...
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... lived in Haarlem , Holland . The approximate date of his discovery was 1429 ; the origin of it was a ramble in the woods near the city where he dwelt . On this occasion Coster cut some letters out of the bark of a tree . By the aid of ...
... lived in Haarlem , Holland . The approximate date of his discovery was 1429 ; the origin of it was a ramble in the woods near the city where he dwelt . On this occasion Coster cut some letters out of the bark of a tree . By the aid of ...
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Página 39 - THEN sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I WILL sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation : He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Página 112 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 130 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Página 130 - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even * To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 39 - Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Página 129 - Such as may make thee search thy coffers round, Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound: Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door Look in, and see each blissful deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie...
Página 39 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them: They sank into the bottom as a stone.
Página 70 - Than I with pen have skill to show. I could rehearse, if that I would, The whole effect of Nature's plaint, When she had lost the perfect mould, The like to whom she could not paint : With wringing hands, how she did cry, And what she said, I know it, aye.
Página 116 - ... manners. For if a man's mind be deeply seasoned with the consideration of the mortality and corruptible nature of things, he will easily concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth the next day and saw a woman weeping for her son that was dead, and thereupon said, Heri vidi fragilem frangi, hodie vidi mortalem mori.
Página 129 - Where he had mutely sat two years before: Here I salute thee, and thy pardon ask That now I use thee in my latter task: Small loss it is that thence can come...