English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a History of Its Origin and Development : Designed for Use in Colleges and SchoolsHarper, 1873 - 796 páginas |
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... king- dom of Greece contains a population of about 900,000 . The language preserves a much nearer identity with the ancient Greek language than the Romanic languages do with the Latin . The term Romaic arose from the name Romaioi , or ...
... king- dom of Greece contains a population of about 900,000 . The language preserves a much nearer identity with the ancient Greek language than the Romanic languages do with the Latin . The term Romaic arose from the name Romaioi , or ...
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... king to slave ? The last , best friend , Our cares to end , Thy empire is in the grave , When all have fled , Thou giv'st a bed , Wherein we calmly sleep : The wounds long healed , The dim eyes sealed , That long did wake and weep ...
... king to slave ? The last , best friend , Our cares to end , Thy empire is in the grave , When all have fled , Thou giv'st a bed , Wherein we calmly sleep : The wounds long healed , The dim eyes sealed , That long did wake and weep ...
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... King Christian stood by the lofty mast In mist and smoke . His sword was hammering so fast , Through Gothic helm and brain it passed , Then sank each hostile hulk and mast In mist and smoke . Fly , shouted they , fly , he who can ! Who ...
... King Christian stood by the lofty mast In mist and smoke . His sword was hammering so fast , Through Gothic helm and brain it passed , Then sank each hostile hulk and mast In mist and smoke . Fly , shouted they , fly , he who can ! Who ...
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... kings , in A.D. 449 invited Hengist and Horsa , with their followers , to fight his battles . " Then , sad relief , from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar , deep - blooming , strong , And yellow - haired , the blue - eyed ...
... kings , in A.D. 449 invited Hengist and Horsa , with their followers , to fight his battles . " Then , sad relief , from the bleak coast that hears The German Ocean roar , deep - blooming , strong , And yellow - haired , the blue - eyed ...
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... kings ; under Elrian , Owen , and Prince Arthur , with his knights of the round table , celebrated by the British bards . To escape from the exterminating sword of their enemies , the F natives , as soon as they saw that resistance was ...
... kings ; under Elrian , Owen , and Prince Arthur , with his knights of the round table , celebrated by the British bards . To escape from the exterminating sword of their enemies , the F natives , as soon as they saw that resistance was ...
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accent adjective adverb ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon breath C. S. Note called Celtic Celts classification combination common compound conjunction CONSONANT SOUNDS consonantal elements consonantal sounds copula Danish dative denotes dialect Diphthong elementary sound England English language equivalent etymological euphony express French gender genitive German Give glish Gothic Gothic language grammar Greek Greek language guage inflection Italian king Latin language Latin words letters logical loved meaning mind mode Norman noun object origin orthoepy participle person Philippe de Thaun phonetic elements plural predicate prefix preposition present preterit pronoun pronunciation proposition QUESTIONS UNDER CHAPTER race relation represented Roman roots Sanscrit Saxon sentence Shemitic singular sometimes sonant SPECIMEN speech spoken language stock of languages substantive suffix surd syllable taken term termination Teutonic th in thin thing thou tion tive tongue transitive verb verb vocal voice vowel vowel sounds whence writing καὶ
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Página 546 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 640 - 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 100 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Página 603 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Página 510 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 737 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that Optics...
Página 160 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, "With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 682 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Página 160 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Página 648 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.