A Stem Dictionary of the English Language: For Use in Elementary SchoolsAmerican Book Company, 1890 - 282 páginas |
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... Romans , however , was only nominal , never amounting to more than an armed occupation , and therefore affected the speech of the country but slightly . The Latin language was again introduced , and with more effect , in the fifth and ...
... Romans , however , was only nominal , never amounting to more than an armed occupation , and therefore affected the speech of the country but slightly . The Latin language was again introduced , and with more effect , in the fifth and ...
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... Romans were instructed by the Greeks ; and in appropriating Greek thought they likewise appropriated a large range of Greek terms . It was a Greek - laden Latin which the conquerors of the world spread over the Roman Empire . The Latin ...
... Romans were instructed by the Greeks ; and in appropriating Greek thought they likewise appropriated a large range of Greek terms . It was a Greek - laden Latin which the conquerors of the world spread over the Roman Empire . The Latin ...
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... Roman amphitheater ) . L. arena . * The arch has long been a conspicuous feature in architecture . As such it was introduced by the Romans , its use being unknown to the Greeks and other nations , who distinguished themselves early in ...
... Roman amphitheater ) . L. arena . * The arch has long been a conspicuous feature in architecture . As such it was introduced by the Romans , its use being unknown to the Greeks and other nations , who distinguished themselves early in ...
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... Roman populace . Strange to say , the front seats in those extraordinary places of amusement were reserved for the upper classes , assigned by law to those of knightly rank . The gladiators once rebelled against the brutal uses to which ...
... Roman populace . Strange to say , the front seats in those extraordinary places of amusement were reserved for the upper classes , assigned by law to those of knightly rank . The gladiators once rebelled against the brutal uses to which ...
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... Roman garrisons , the island lapsed back into the possession of its native Celts . Some of these living nearest the Roman strong- holds had become partly Romanized ; that is , they had acquired some Roman ideas , some Roman customs , and ...
... Roman garrisons , the island lapsed back into the possession of its native Celts . Some of these living nearest the Roman strong- holds had become partly Romanized ; that is , they had acquired some Roman ideas , some Roman customs , and ...
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Página 266 - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I...
Página 206 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance. And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Página 232 - To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him as he lay along Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, Did come to languish...
Página 231 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 126 - tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Página 64 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Página 106 - That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Página 178 - What you do Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Página 190 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black — An ebon mass. Methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought. Entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 251 - And from the gray old trunks that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, and from the sound Of the invisible breath that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless Power And inaccessible Majesty. Ah ! why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised...