Old Words and Modern Meanings: Being a Collection of Examples from Ancient and Modern English Authors, Illustrating Some Changes in the Use of LanguageThomas Whitcombe Greene Longmans and Company, 1876 - 314 páginas |
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... ; drinkables are ' viands ' ; a fountain is a ' well ' ; a knight is a ' child ' or ' infant ' ; a youth is a ' damsel ' ; manners are ' airs ' ; tumblers are ' antics . ' xii INTRODUCTION . ' Nephews ' meant grand - children.
... ; drinkables are ' viands ' ; a fountain is a ' well ' ; a knight is a ' child ' or ' infant ' ; a youth is a ' damsel ' ; manners are ' airs ' ; tumblers are ' antics . ' xii INTRODUCTION . ' Nephews ' meant grand - children.
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... manner has become per- fectly easy to him , his affectation is so habitual and universal that it can hardly be called affectation . The affectation is the essence of the man.- -MACAULAY . Affront . To confront . passed into one of ...
... manner has become per- fectly easy to him , his affectation is so habitual and universal that it can hardly be called affectation . The affectation is the essence of the man.- -MACAULAY . Affront . To confront . passed into one of ...
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... foresee all consequences . The example of a neighbouring nation should fill us with alarm . - SYDNEY SMITH , Noodle's Oration . Airs . Manners . Now used with a sense of affecta- tion . ALLOW - AMAZE . The charity children to the number.
... foresee all consequences . The example of a neighbouring nation should fill us with alarm . - SYDNEY SMITH , Noodle's Oration . Airs . Manners . Now used with a sense of affecta- tion . ALLOW - AMAZE . The charity children to the number.
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... manners portray themselves , like the drunkards , in their cups . Lo , here the blooming Hyson is pencilling and curving the cross - bows of her eyebrows , a musical instrument is at her almost invisible feet . Are such little ...
... manners portray themselves , like the drunkards , in their cups . Lo , here the blooming Hyson is pencilling and curving the cross - bows of her eyebrows , a musical instrument is at her almost invisible feet . Are such little ...
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... manner , spoke his request with so arch a leer , that I promised the Drole I would speak to all my acquaintance to be at his play . — Tatler . Array . Plight . And met the ship driving , as saith the story , In which Constance sitteth ...
... manner , spoke his request with so arch a leer , that I promised the Drole I would speak to all my acquaintance to be at his play . — Tatler . Array . Plight . And met the ship driving , as saith the story , In which Constance sitteth ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration Antony and Cleopatra applied Ballad BEAUMONT and FLETCHER beauty better Cæsar called character CHAUCER colour creature Cymbeline death delight DISRAELI doth dread DRYDEN English eyes Fairy Queen favour feel Formerly FULLER genius Gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona give grace hand hath head hear heaven Henry VI Henry VIII honour HORACE WALPOLE human husband JONSON Julius Cæsar King labour lady LAMB language literal live look Lord MACAULAY mankind manner ment merry Milton mind miserable modern nature never night noble observe obsolete old meaning old writers Once orator Paradise Lost passed passion PEPYS person pleasure poet Pope present Prince quaint Richard III sense SHAKSPEARE Shrew Sir Roger SPENSER spirit sweet SYDNEY SMITH Tale taste TAYLOR thee things thou thought Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night unto Version WALTER SCOTT whole word young
Pasajes populares
Página 274 - Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Página 231 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 82 - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
Página 257 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, I say literally glowed, when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Página 85 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 36 - 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 few technical . terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly...
Página 287 - I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town — the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction.
Página 102 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
Página 19 - Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.
Página 57 - I have often been pleased to hear disputes adjusted between an inhabitant of Japan and an alderman of London, or to see a subject of the great mogul entering into a league with one of the Czar of Muscovy.