Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomC. Scribner, 1859 - 302 páginas |
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Abusive adjective æsthetic allusion antique appellation application asserted beauty becomes beeing Ben Jonson called Canterbury Tales Chaucer composition corruption Cratylus curious derivation Diversions of Purley element embalmed employed English Language English speech ethical etymologically Euphuism example expression fact Falstaff fancy fantastic French German give grand Greek guage hath heart hence Henry IV hodden Horne Tooke human humor idea idioms important instance Italian Jacob Grimm jeu parti King Latin laws literally living LOCO-FOCO Lord meaning merely metaphor mind modern moral nature noble Norman one's origin Othello passage passion person phrase Piers Ploughman poetry present primary primitive Purley Ramble rich Roman root Sartor Resartus Saxon Scotch sense Shakespeare significant signification simply speak spirit strange Synonyms Tale tell term thee things thou thought tion tongue truth utterance verb verbal Verstegan Webster whence wont word
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Página 261 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages), Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
Página 71 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Página 54 - Mother of this unfathomable world ! Favour my solemn song, for I have loved Thee ever, and thee only : I have watched Thy shadow, and the darkness of thy steps, And my heart ever gazes on the depth Of thy deep mysteries.
Página 24 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Página 187 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 57 - ... needed to shape and coin a word for, — what thou callest a metaphor, trope, or the like ? For every word we have, there was such a man and poet. The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor, and bold questionable originality. " Thy very ATTENTION, does it not mean an attentio, a STRETCHING-TO ? " Fancy that act of the mind, which all were conscious of, which none had yet named, — when this new " poet " first felt bound and driven to name it ! His questionable originality, and new glowing...
Página 69 - In fact, unity, agreement is always silent, or soft-voiced ; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself. So long as the several elements of Life, all fitly adjusted, can pour forth their movement like harmonious tuned strings, it is a melody and unison ; Life, from its mysterious fountains, flows out as in celestial music and diapason, — which also, like that other music of the spheres, even because it is perennial and complete, without interruption and without imperfection, might be fabled...
Página 121 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops of the world Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday. Massinger's is a general rhetorical question, the language just and pure, but colourless. Shakespeare's has particular significance; and the adjective 'drowsy* and the verb 'medicine
Página 60 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Página 86 - Money. Yet hereby did Barter grow Sale, the Leather Money is now Golden and Paper, and all miracles have been out-miracled : for there are Rothschilds and English National Debts ; and whoso has sixpence is Sovereign (to the length of sixpence...