The English Language: Its Grammar, History and Literature : with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and PunctuationD.C. Heath & Company, 1887 - 466 páginas |
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... spoken , and not the written , language that is the language , — that is the more important of the two , and that indeed gives life and vigour to the other . 2. The Spoken and the Written Language . - Every civilised language had ...
... spoken , and not the written , language that is the language , — that is the more important of the two , and that indeed gives life and vigour to the other . 2. The Spoken and the Written Language . - Every civilised language had ...
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... spoken form . The English spoken the fifth century was a harsh guttural speech , consisting of few thousand words , and spoken by a few thousand settl in the east of England . It is now a speech spoken by mo than a hundred millions of ...
... spoken form . The English spoken the fifth century was a harsh guttural speech , consisting of few thousand words , and spoken by a few thousand settl in the east of England . It is now a speech spoken by mo than a hundred millions of ...
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... spoken alphabet of English contains forty - three sounds ; the written alphabet has only twenty - six □ ymbols or letters to represent them . Hence the English al- F phabet is very deficient . But it is also THE GRAMMAR OF LETTERS . 7.
... spoken alphabet of English contains forty - three sounds ; the written alphabet has only twenty - six □ ymbols or letters to represent them . Hence the English al- F phabet is very deficient . But it is also THE GRAMMAR OF LETTERS . 7.
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... spoken of as feminine . ( vii ) Sex is a distinction between animals ; gender a distincti tween nouns . In Old English , nouns ending in dom , as freedom masculine ; nouns in ness , as goodness , feminine ; and nouns in maiden , chicken ...
... spoken of as feminine . ( vii ) Sex is a distinction between animals ; gender a distincti tween nouns . In Old English , nouns ending in dom , as freedom masculine ; nouns in ness , as goodness , feminine ; and nouns in maiden , chicken ...
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... spoken to or addres 33. The Nominative Case answers to the question Who What ? It has always a verb that goes with it , and as something about it . 34. The Possessive Case has the ending ' s in the singu ' s in the plural , when the ...
... spoken to or addres 33. The Nominative Case answers to the question Who What ? It has always a verb that goes with it , and as something about it . 34. The Possessive Case has the ending ' s in the singu ' s in the plural , when the ...
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Adjectival adjective adverb amphibrachs Analyse Anglo-Saxon Ben Jonson born cæsura called century Chaucer comes compound conjunctions connected dative dialect ending England English language English words Enlargement EXERCISE feminine French words gender German gerund give grammar greatest Greek guttural Hence History iambic iambic pentameter Imperative Mood Indefinite Tense Indirect Object infinitive inflexions Intransitive John Julius Cæsar kind King large number Latin Latin words lines literature living London Lord meaning Milton Mood nominative Norman Norman-French Ormulum Parse the words participle passage Past Perfect person phrases plural poem poet poetry Pope possessive Predicate prefixes preposition present Principal Sentence pronoun prose prose-writer rhymed Roman root RULE Saxon Shakespeare Singular sound speak speech spoken style Subjunctive Mood subordinate sentences suffix syllable things thou thought transitive verb translation trochees verb verse words in italics Wordsworth write written wrote
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Página 191 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 210 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 177 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 250 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 258 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. // Near them, on the sand, / Half sunk, / a shattered visage lies, / whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, / Tell that its sculptor / well those passions read / Which yet survive, / stamped on these lifeless things, / The hand that mocked them, / and the heart that fed: // And on the pedestal / these words...
Página 404 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Página 233 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door.
Página 116 - But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Página 332 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Página 100 - Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number. Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with...