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... , and aus , signifying finality so that the first means the sound at the beginning ; the second that in the middle ; and the latter that at the end of a syllable . How poor in meaning , notwithstanding their vocal Preface .
... , and aus , signifying finality so that the first means the sound at the beginning ; the second that in the middle ; and the latter that at the end of a syllable . How poor in meaning , notwithstanding their vocal Preface .
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... beginnings of the Anglosaxon dominion are veiled in dark- ness . Marauding expeditions of German and Scandinavian mariners to the southern and eastern coasts of Britain began in the third cen- tury after Christ : the Romans maintained ...
... beginnings of the Anglosaxon dominion are veiled in dark- ness . Marauding expeditions of German and Scandinavian mariners to the southern and eastern coasts of Britain began in the third cen- tury after Christ : the Romans maintained ...
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... beginning of the seventeenth century is an essential mark of distinction between the Old English and the Modern English . Herewith is associated the securing of a literary idiom , to which contributed not so much the translations from ...
... beginning of the seventeenth century is an essential mark of distinction between the Old English and the Modern English . Herewith is associated the securing of a literary idiom , to which contributed not so much the translations from ...
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... beginning of the sixteenth cen- tury , at first as English - Latin Lexicography , and in the interest of the acquisition of foreign languages , as of Latin , Greek and the modern tongues , but from the seventeenth and especially the ...
... beginning of the sixteenth cen- tury , at first as English - Latin Lexicography , and in the interest of the acquisition of foreign languages , as of Latin , Greek and the modern tongues , but from the seventeenth and especially the ...
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... beginning with a con- sonant the usage fluctuates . Derivative words , whose primitives had the accent upon that syllable , usually retain the diphthong : migration from migrate ( yet immigration , transmigrá- tion from immigrate & c ...
... beginning with a con- sonant the usage fluctuates . Derivative words , whose primitives had the accent upon that syllable , usually retain the diphthong : migration from migrate ( yet immigration , transmigrá- tion from immigrate & c ...
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accented syllable according activity adjective adverb alongside Anglo Anglosaxon answers appears arises become beginning belong BYRON cast century CHAUCER combination common commonly comp compounds consonant denoted dental derivative determination dialects diphthong distinguished double Engl English especially exception expression feminine final forms French frequently genitive Germanic GLOUCESTER Greek guttural HALLIWELL hand Highdutch inflection initial instance language Latin latter likewise meaning middle Modern-English Modern-French mute names nouns object occurs Old-English Old-French Old-Highdutch Old-norse originally participle particles particularly partly passed perhaps persons plur plural position preceding preposition present preserved preterite pronounced pronunciation rarely referred regard relation remains represented rest Romance saxon seems serves SHAKSP SHAKSPEARE short shortened simple sing singular SKELTON sometimes sort sound speech spelt stands stem strong Subst substantive suffix takes termination thou tongue unaccented syllable verb verbal vowel weak whence words
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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...