English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises, Designed for Schools and Private TuitionD. Appleton, 1850 - 344 páginas |
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... character and varied idiom of English speech . This is far from being enough to give the needful knowledge of what is the living lan- guage , both of our English literature and of the multiform intercourse - oral and written of our ...
... character and varied idiom of English speech . This is far from being enough to give the needful knowledge of what is the living lan- guage , both of our English literature and of the multiform intercourse - oral and written of our ...
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... character and structure of the language will suggest themselves . The synonyms of ' intensity , ' or of ' active and passive ' words , may induce a more extended examination of words , which , while kindred in meaning , express many ...
... character and structure of the language will suggest themselves . The synonyms of ' intensity , ' or of ' active and passive ' words , may induce a more extended examination of words , which , while kindred in meaning , express many ...
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... character . ' A few sentences of historical description will show the justice of this praise , while it adds another specimen of the kind of English , which should be employed in the study of the language : " Before the sweeping pursuit ...
... character . ' A few sentences of historical description will show the justice of this praise , while it adds another specimen of the kind of English , which should be employed in the study of the language : " Before the sweeping pursuit ...
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... character or uses . This observation is quite as true of art as of nature . Here , though the artisan exert his utmost skill to make one object exactly like another , we shall find , upon a close inspection , that he never wholly ...
... character or uses . This observation is quite as true of art as of nature . Here , though the artisan exert his utmost skill to make one object exactly like another , we shall find , upon a close inspection , that he never wholly ...
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... character of the man . If an infinite variety in the appearance of external things be an admitted fact , it will follow that there must be , in like man- ner , a great variety in the meaning of those words which are their conventional ...
... character of the man . If an infinite variety in the appearance of external things be an admitted fact , it will follow that there must be , in like man- ner , a great variety in the meaning of those words which are their conventional ...
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action active ancient appear beauty Brougham Castle cause character Cleop Comus Coriolanus Cymbeline death difference difficulty distinction doth duty earth endeavour English evil Excursion Exercise exists expression faculty fault fear feeling former frequently friends give habit Hamlet happy hath heart heaven Henry IV Henry VIII hope human idea intensive Julius Cæsar King John King Lear knowledge labour language Laodamia latter Liberty live look Macb Macbeth meaning MILTON mind moral nature never night o'er object observed Othello ourselves pain passions passive peace perceive persons pleasure possess praise principle reason Rich Richard II Roman Romeo and Juliet Rylstone sense signifies Sonnets soul speak species spirit strength style synonymous temper Tempest thee things thou thought tion truth Twelfth Night verbs virtue voice whole Winter's Tale words WORDSWORTH writing
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Página 321 - 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 44 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour...
Página 110 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 195 - ... ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! be bounteous still To give us only good; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed. Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark!
Página 39 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Página 293 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Página 60 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 19 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Página 177 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving : with them rose A forest huge of spears ; and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable.
Página 125 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.