An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise on the Orthography, Prosody, Inflections and Syntax of the English Tongue, and Numerous Authorities Cited in Order of Historical Development, Band 1J. Murray, 1874 |
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... ( whence the name Ormulum . ) . The language is already called English ( Ice Patt Pis Ennglissh hafe sett ( compare Ormulum in Thorpe Annal . Angl . sax . p . 174 ) . It has already taken up and assimilated many French words , perceptibly ...
... ( whence the name Ormulum . ) . The language is already called English ( Ice Patt Pis Ennglissh hafe sett ( compare Ormulum in Thorpe Annal . Angl . sax . p . 174 ) . It has already taken up and assimilated many French words , perceptibly ...
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... whence the Suffolk " whining " , and form a sharp contrast to the full - toned northern dialects . The midland dialects are to be regarded as the third branch , as , that of Herefordshire , Warwick- shire and Northamptonshire , also at ...
... whence the Suffolk " whining " , and form a sharp contrast to the full - toned northern dialects . The midland dialects are to be regarded as the third branch , as , that of Herefordshire , Warwick- shire and Northamptonshire , also at ...
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... whence whisky ) , pugh ! nigh , sigh , high , bough , plough ; Annagh , Armagh , Nenägh . But this happens also in unaccented final syllables : Raleigh , Chúmleigh , Hadleigh , Denbigh , Keogh , Conemaugh , borough , thorough c . der ...
... whence whisky ) , pugh ! nigh , sigh , high , bough , plough ; Annagh , Armagh , Nenägh . But this happens also in unaccented final syllables : Raleigh , Chúmleigh , Hadleigh , Denbigh , Keogh , Conemaugh , borough , thorough c . der ...
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... whence it may happen that the accent recedes to the sixth syllable from the end : díscipline , disciplinable , disciplinableness , although a counterpoise is in many cases given to the multitude of unaccented syllables by the subordi ...
... whence it may happen that the accent recedes to the sixth syllable from the end : díscipline , disciplinable , disciplinableness , although a counterpoise is in many cases given to the multitude of unaccented syllables by the subordi ...
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... whence fawn to bring forth a fawn ( feoner , faoner ) , but not in fawn to wheedle , to cherish ( Anglosaxon fagenjan , fägnjan , fahnjan exultare ) . = In lawn the French linon is contracted . O in an accented syllable , variously ...
... whence fawn to bring forth a fawn ( feoner , faoner ) , but not in fawn to wheedle , to cherish ( Anglosaxon fagenjan , fägnjan , fahnjan exultare ) . = In lawn the French linon is contracted . O in an accented syllable , variously ...
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accented syllable adjective adverb alongside Anglo Anglosaxon forms appears belong BYRON cast CHAUCER commonly comp compare Anglosaxon compounds consonant Cymric Danish denoted dental derivative terminations diphthong distinguished Engl English especially feminine French frequently gender genitive Germanic glish glosaxon GLOUCESTER Gothic Greek guttural HALLIWELL s. v. Highdutch Hollandish i-sound inflection interchange language Latin likewise LONGFELLOW Lowdutch masculine MAUNDEV meaning Medieval-Latin Middle-Highdutch modern Modern-English Modern-French mute MYST neuter notion nouns obsolete occurs Old-Engl Old-English Old-French Old-Highdutch Old-norse originally participle particles partly passed PERCY Rel periphrastic persons PIERS PLOUGHM plur plural preceding prefix preposition preserved preterite preterite and participle primitive pronounced pronunciation proper names rarely reduplication regarded Romance words saxon sentence SHAKSP SHAKSPEARE short shortened sing singular SKELTON sometimes sort sound spelt stands stantive stem strong verbs subordinate accent Subst substantive suffix thou tongue TOWNEL unaccented syllable verbal vowel weak form whence
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Seite 302 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Seite 262 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Seite 322 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
Seite 240 - The ball always concludes with English country dances, to the number of thirty or forty couple, and so ill danced, that there is very little pleasure in them. They know but half a dozen, and they have danced them over and over these fifty years : I would fain have taught them some new ones, but I found it would be some months' labour to make them comprehend them.
Seite 293 - That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool cisterns of the midnight air, My spirit drank repose; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows.
Seite 276 - And hearts of all who walk within thy rays! Sire of the seasons! Monarch of the climes, And those who dwell in them! for near or far, Our inborn spirits have a tint of thee Even as our outward aspects; — thou dost rise, And shine, and set in glory. Fare thee well! I ne'er shall see thee more. As my first glance Of love and wonder was for thee, then take My latest look...
Seite 277 - Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o...
Seite 263 - O'er mount and vale, where never summer ray Glanced, till the strong tornado broke his way Through the gray giants of the sylvan wild ; Yet many a sheltered glade, with blossoms gay, Beneath the showery sky and sunshine mild, Within the shaggy arms of that dark forest smiled.
Seite 259 - Beneath a hill, whose rocky side O'erbrowed a grassy mead, And fenced a cottage from the wind, A deer was wont to feed. She only came when on the cliffs The evening moonlight lay, And no man knew the secret haunts In which she walked by day. White were her feet, her forehead showed A spot of silvery white, That seemed to glimmer like a star In autumn's hazy night. And here, when sang the whippoorwill She cropped the sprouting leaves, And here her rustling steps...
Seite 247 - No faction, or domestic fury's rage, Did e'er disturb the quiet of that place, When the contending nobles shook the land With York and Lancaster's disputed sway. Your virtue there may find a safe retreat From the insulting pow'rs of wicked greatness.