Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. PayneJoseph Payne 1868 |
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... seen below . Whatever connection Eng- lish has with this stock , is with the Cymric rather than the Gaelic division , as must be evident from the historical fact ( 1 ) " History of the English Language and Literature , " i . 34 . ( 2 ) ...
... seen below . Whatever connection Eng- lish has with this stock , is with the Cymric rather than the Gaelic division , as must be evident from the historical fact ( 1 ) " History of the English Language and Literature , " i . 34 . ( 2 ) ...
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... seen only in the proper names of places connected with the military establishments of the legion- aries . No single Latin word , as far as is known , found its way at this time into the common tongue , unless it be street ( from Latin ...
... seen only in the proper names of places connected with the military establishments of the legion- aries . No single Latin word , as far as is known , found its way at this time into the common tongue , unless it be street ( from Latin ...
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... seen in the subjoined table : - : - LANGUAGES OF THE GOTHIC STOCK . TEUTONIC . 1. Mœso - Gothic , as seen in the Gospels of Ulphilas . 2. High German , ( i.e. of the river - founts ) i.e. : — a Old High German of the 7th - 11th ...
... seen in the subjoined table : - : - LANGUAGES OF THE GOTHIC STOCK . TEUTONIC . 1. Mœso - Gothic , as seen in the Gospels of Ulphilas . 2. High German , ( i.e. of the river - founts ) i.e. : — a Old High German of the 7th - 11th ...
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... seen , was formed by the fusion of various dialects of kindred origin into one . It is evident from the nature of the case , that no one year , scarcely any one century , can be named as the exact period when this amalgama- tion took ...
... seen , was formed by the fusion of various dialects of kindred origin into one . It is evident from the nature of the case , that no one year , scarcely any one century , can be named as the exact period when this amalgama- tion took ...
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... seen , the distinctive features of the second and fourth stages , have been aptly cha- racterised by Dr. Craik ( " History of English Language and Literature " ) as THE TWO GREAT REVOLUTIONS in the history of English . Remarkable ...
... seen , the distinctive features of the second and fourth stages , have been aptly cha- racterised by Dr. Craik ( " History of English Language and Literature " ) as THE TWO GREAT REVOLUTIONS in the history of English . Remarkable ...
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Page 116 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 319 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Page 318 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 272 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Page 212 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 123 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 129 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 130 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 98 - ... if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law...
Page 272 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...