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... English period ( 1250— 1350 ) and a Middle English ( 1350-155 ) , we must consider on the other hand that , in point of fact , no epoch of change in the forms of the English language occurred in the middle of the fourteenth century ...
... English period ( 1250— 1350 ) and a Middle English ( 1350-155 ) , we must consider on the other hand that , in point of fact , no epoch of change in the forms of the English language occurred in the middle of the fourteenth century ...
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... English , much that was repugnant having been rejected in more modern times , and English being especially adapted , from the blunt- ing of its terminations , to assimilate foreign words of all kinds . A more essential distinction ...
... English , much that was repugnant having been rejected in more modern times , and English being especially adapted , from the blunt- ing of its terminations , to assimilate foreign words of all kinds . A more essential distinction ...
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... English owes to Anglosaxon the remnants of inflective terminations in the noun , the verb and the pronoun , likewise ... English a number of forms of terminations , which have given the language a fresh mobility , as they are often ...
... English owes to Anglosaxon the remnants of inflective terminations in the noun , the verb and the pronoun , likewise ... English a number of forms of terminations , which have given the language a fresh mobility , as they are often ...
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... English outstripped it . Queen Elizabeth no longer understood the Scotch letters of Mary Stuart in the same age when ... English , has preserved many materials of speech which have been abandoned in English . The Scotch has hitherto ...
... English outstripped it . Queen Elizabeth no longer understood the Scotch letters of Mary Stuart in the same age when ... English , has preserved many materials of speech which have been abandoned in English . The Scotch has hitherto ...
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... English : In such words as buoy , u is either cast out or passes into the half consonant w . Such combinations of vowels as ea are falsely called diphthongs in English and such as eau triphthongs : English , like Anglosaxon ...
... English : In such words as buoy , u is either cast out or passes into the half consonant w . Such combinations of vowels as ea are falsely called diphthongs in English and such as eau triphthongs : English , like Anglosaxon ...
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accented syllable adjective adverb alongside Anglo Anglosaxon words appears belong BRYANT BYRON century CHAUCER commonly comp compare Anglosaxon compound Conjunctive consonant Cymric Danish declension denoted dental derivative terminations diphthong Engl English especially feminine French frequently gender genitive Germanic glish glosaxon GLOUCESTER Gothic guttural HALLIWELL s. v. Highdutch Hollandish i-sound inflection interchange language Latin likewise liquid consonant LONGFELLOW Lowdutch masculine MAUNDEV Medieval-Latin Middle-Highdutch modern Modern-English Modern-French mute MYST neuter Northern dialects nouns obscure vowels obsolete occurs Old-Engl Old-English Old-French Old-Highdutch Old-norse open syllable originally participle particles partly PERCY Rel periphrastic person PIERS PLOUGHM plur plural preceding prefix preposition preserved preterite preterite and participle pronounced pronunciation rarely reduplication regard Romance words saxon sentence SHAKSP SHAKSPEARE shortened sing singular SKELTON sometimes sound spelt stands stem strong verbs subordinate accent Subst substantive suffix thou tongue TOWNEL unaccented syllable vowel weak form whence
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Seite 296 - 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 275 - And styled of war as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature Are either for the land or water.) But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout.
Seite 276 - Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
Seite 287 - 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 259 - In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — "Forever — never! Never — forever!
Seite 234 - 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 255 - Ah ! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave — Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save. Now all is calm, and fresh and still, Alone the chirp of flitting bird, And talk of children on the hill, And bell of wandering kine are heard.
Seite 256 - 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 262 - But Rome is as the desert, where we steer Stumbling o'er recollections: now we clap Our hands, and cry, " Eureka ! it is clear — " When but some false mirage of ruin rises near.
Seite 254 - Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing. And the waters murmuring, With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feather'd Sleep...