Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomD. Thomas, 1864 - 302 páginas |
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... influences . A petrified and mechanical national mind will certainly appear in a petrified and mechanical language . But the provisions are perfect . The renovation of language is provided for , as the renovation of the races is ...
... influences . A petrified and mechanical national mind will certainly appear in a petrified and mechanical language . But the provisions are perfect . The renovation of language is provided for , as the renovation of the races is ...
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... influences , and gently at last rocking us to sleep with sphere - music and old eternal melodies . Shelley , her loveliest and lornest child , shall sing her pæan . " Mother of this unfathomable world ! Favour my solemn song , for I ...
... influences , and gently at last rocking us to sleep with sphere - music and old eternal melodies . Shelley , her loveliest and lornest child , shall sing her pæan . " Mother of this unfathomable world ! Favour my solemn song , for I ...
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... alembic ? We are not apt , in this practical age , to be very profoundly devoted to astrolatry , and yet do we ever ' CONSIDER ' without holding commerce with the- INFLUENCE OF ASTROLOGY . 61 sidera * -stars ? The 60 FOSSIL POETRIES .
... alembic ? We are not apt , in this practical age , to be very profoundly devoted to astrolatry , and yet do we ever ' CONSIDER ' without holding commerce with the- INFLUENCE OF ASTROLOGY . 61 sidera * -stars ? The 60 FOSSIL POETRIES .
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... INFLUENCE , ' too , looks back to a time when the stars shot their sweet impartings to man's heart . So even the nonchalant Frenchman persists in talking about his ' bon - heur ' and his ' mal- heur ' -- which , of course , we recognise ...
... INFLUENCE , ' too , looks back to a time when the stars shot their sweet impartings to man's heart . So even the nonchalant Frenchman persists in talking about his ' bon - heur ' and his ' mal- heur ' -- which , of course , we recognise ...
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... influences , since we have the superstition firmly rooted in the very groundwork of our language . Witness ' LUNATIC ; ' also the alchemical ' MENSTRUUM ' ( mensis - a month ) ; and , by the way , ' MONTHI ' itself is just the time in ...
... influences , since we have the superstition firmly rooted in the very groundwork of our language . Witness ' LUNATIC ; ' also the alchemical ' MENSTRUUM ' ( mensis - a month ) ; and , by the way , ' MONTHI ' itself is just the time in ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.