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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... Masters of the English tongue - are included , and these are supplemented by short extracts from their works to illustrate characteris- tics of style and of spelling , and show the progress made in the different periods into which the ...
... Masters of the English tongue - are included , and these are supplemented by short extracts from their works to illustrate characteris- tics of style and of spelling , and show the progress made in the different periods into which the ...
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... master- piece which in the sunset of his life he produced in retire- ment from the activities of public service at his quiet country home in Woodstock . This masterpiece was begun probably about 1387 , for by 1393 most of the " Tales ...
... master- piece which in the sunset of his life he produced in retire- ment from the activities of public service at his quiet country home in Woodstock . This masterpiece was begun probably about 1387 , for by 1393 most of the " Tales ...
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... master , Robert Large , was sheriff of London in 1430 , and elected Lord Mayor of that city in 1439. This suggests that Caxton's parents must have been people of influence , or he would not have been able to secure apprenticeship to one ...
... master , Robert Large , was sheriff of London in 1430 , and elected Lord Mayor of that city in 1439. This suggests that Caxton's parents must have been people of influence , or he would not have been able to secure apprenticeship to one ...
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... master printer and publisher of books , but to some extent a man of letters - editor , author , translator - with a certain style of his own and a true enthusiasm for literature . His work as writer and translator helped to fix the ...
... master printer and publisher of books , but to some extent a man of letters - editor , author , translator - with a certain style of his own and a true enthusiasm for literature . His work as writer and translator helped to fix the ...
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... master of his art . Several editions of " Morte d'Arthur " have been printed , and the work is one that has been recently selected for study as an English classic in American schools . The following extract will serve to show ENGLISH ...
... master of his art . Several editions of " Morte d'Arthur " have been printed , and the work is one that has been recently selected for study as an English classic in American schools . The following extract will serve to show ENGLISH ...
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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...