Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomD. Thomas, 1864 - 302 páginas |
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... employ in the same sense as taste : thus , " men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle as dressed up by the schoolmen . " How utterly sensuous ! Shakespeare , however , follows in the same direction : " Devotion , patience ...
... employ in the same sense as taste : thus , " men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle as dressed up by the schoolmen . " How utterly sensuous ! Shakespeare , however , follows in the same direction : " Devotion , patience ...
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... at him ! ' RESPECTABLE ' has , however , been sadly degenerating these late years , being now chiefly employed to designate decayed gentility or mental mediocrity . THE SENSE OF SIGHT . 29 ' SEER , ' 28 WORK OF THE SENSES .
... at him ! ' RESPECTABLE ' has , however , been sadly degenerating these late years , being now chiefly employed to designate decayed gentility or mental mediocrity . THE SENSE OF SIGHT . 29 ' SEER , ' 28 WORK OF THE SENSES .
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... employed to assist them in their arithmetical difficulties . A ludicrous example of this same attempt to tint things up couleur de rose is furnished in the word ' PAMPER , ' a term which the Italians have given us- being , I believe ...
... employed to assist them in their arithmetical difficulties . A ludicrous example of this same attempt to tint things up couleur de rose is furnished in the word ' PAMPER , ' a term which the Italians have given us- being , I believe ...
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... employ it but to express that cringing compliance that leads one to follow after the favor or fancy of another , or shape one's principles or practice according to his whims . And lastly I may mention the term ' GOSSIP ' which tells a ...
... employ it but to express that cringing compliance that leads one to follow after the favor or fancy of another , or shape one's principles or practice according to his whims . And lastly I may mention the term ' GOSSIP ' which tells a ...
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... employed in writing on their tablets ; and as they were both sharp and strong they were capable of being made a very formidable weapon . Cæsar himself , it is supposed , got his quietus by means of a stylus . Many who have felt the ...
... employed in writing on their tablets ; and as they were both sharp and strong they were capable of being made a very formidable weapon . Cæsar himself , it is supposed , got his quietus by means of a stylus . Many who have felt the ...
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Abusive adjective allusion antique appellation application Archæology asserted beauty beeing Ben Jonson called Canterbury Tales Chaucer classic composition corruption Cratylus curious derivation elements embalmed employed English Language English speech ethical etymologically Euphuism example expression fact Falstaff fancy fantastic French genius German give grand Greek guage hath heart hence Henry IV human humor idioms illustration 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 passage passion person Philology Philosophy phrase piece of history Piers Ploughman poetry present primary primitive Purley RAMBLE rich Roman root Saxon Scotch sense Shakespeare significant signification simply speak spirit strange Surnames symbols Synonyms tell term thee thing thou thought tion tongue utterance verb verbal Verstegan Webster whence wont word Zoroaster
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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 70 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 189 - 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 136 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Página 123 - Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness; say where greatness lies. Where, but among the heroes and the wise?
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 52 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan.
Página 55 - Has shone within me, that serenely now And moveless, as a long-forgotten lyre Suspended in the solitary dome Of some mysterious and deserted fane, I wait thy breath, Great Parent, that my strain May modulate with murmurs of the air, And motions of the forests and the sea, And voice of living beings, and woven hymns Of night and day, and the deep heart of man.
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 173 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.