Words: Their Use and AbuseS. C. Griggs, 1882 - 384 páginas |
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adjective ALEXANDER WINCHELL Anglo-Saxon Archbishop Whately beauty called century character charm Cicero cloth common convey corruption Demosthenes derived diction dictionary eloquence England English language etymologists etymology expression fact familiar feeling force French genius German give Greek guage heart human hundred ideas intellect Italian J. H. Newman Latin learned less literature living London Lord Max Müller meaning meant Milton mind modern monosyllables moral nations nature never nickname observed once orator origin passage persons phrases poet remarkable reply rhetoric Roman Rufus Choate SAMUEL BAILEY Saxon says secret sense sentence Shakspeare significance solecisms sophism soul sound speak speakers speech spirit style Sydney Smith syllables talk tell term things thought tion tongue translation true truth utterance verb verbal verse vocabulary vulgar W. D. WHITNEY whole WILLIAM MATHEWS words writer
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Página 131 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Página 131 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Página 184 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; But as it is, I live and die unheard, AVith a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Página 132 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Página 370 - 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 257 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure.
Página 176 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Página 133 - Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land - Good Night!
Página 328 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Página 148 - And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?