An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Band 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Company, 1837 |
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... horses after a driven stage ? Vast , fast , rapid , hasty . Te hijen , to pant , to fetch the breath with difficulty , to labour for breath . Vast te hijen sounds fustian . We say , with breathless haste , in the import of haste that ...
... horses after a driven stage ? Vast , fast , rapid , hasty . Te hijen , to pant , to fetch the breath with difficulty , to labour for breath . Vast te hijen sounds fustian . We say , with breathless haste , in the import of haste that ...
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... horse may understand you , but no human being can ; that is neighing , but not talking . The expression in both forms is evidently jocular , even burlesque . The word has been derived from the old French gaber , to jabber ; probably of ...
... horse may understand you , but no human being can ; that is neighing , but not talking . The expression in both forms is evidently jocular , even burlesque . The word has been derived from the old French gaber , to jabber ; probably of ...
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... Proudly secure , yet LIABLE to fall By weakest subtleties . " * Sentence of separation . MILTON . Evidently without reference to either writing or printing . HE PUTS THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE . To ill POPULAR PHRASES , 37 LIABLE, ...
... Proudly secure , yet LIABLE to fall By weakest subtleties . " * Sentence of separation . MILTON . Evidently without reference to either writing or printing . HE PUTS THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE . To ill POPULAR PHRASES , 37 LIABLE, ...
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... horse . LEGERDEMAIN . As in the expression , it was quite legerdemain [ all legerdemain ] and in the import of , it was quite successful , answered completely , to which , by a misconception of the true form of the word , we have ...
... horse . LEGERDEMAIN . As in the expression , it was quite legerdemain [ all legerdemain ] and in the import of , it was quite successful , answered completely , to which , by a misconception of the true form of the word , we have ...
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... horse or else an ignorant tit for tat . It is probable our to addle may belong here ; but of this in another article . An addled egg is a useless egg ; an addled head , an empty or useless head , a head in vain ; i . e . the same as ...
... horse or else an ignorant tit for tat . It is probable our to addle may belong here ; but of this in another article . An addled egg is a useless egg ; an addled head , an empty or useless head , a head in vain ; i . e . the same as ...
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analogous Anglo Anglo-Saxon applied aspirate belongs Bije BILDERDIJK bring called CHAUCER contracted participle present CROSS AND PILE derives dialect dije dijen direction of sense Doogh Dutch ellipsis etymology evidently explained expression favour fellow female fetch fool formerly spelt French German gode Gothick grounded groundedly hand head heart heet heeten Hence herte hold hoon HORNE TOOKE horse HUDIBRAS IDEM ijse implying import intermutating Italian Jackdaw JOHNSON Jonsson labour language Latin literal form meaning mede metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite pronounce question quoth regard Saxon schie semid SHAKSPEARE shrew sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE travesty trope turn utter verb watir whence Wijse word wote
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Seite 148 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Seite 140 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears. See how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark in thine ear: change places and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Seite 42 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Seite 148 - Lies perdue in a nook or gloomy cave, Prompt to enchant some inadvertent wretch With his unhallow'd touch. So (poets sing) Grimalkin, to domestic vermin sworn An everlasting foe, with watchful eye Lies nightly brooding o'er a chinky gap, Protending her fell claws, to thoughtless mice Sure ruin.
Seite 120 - The Queen of Night, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land, And over moist and crazy brains, In high spring-tides, at midnight reigns, Was now declining to the west, To go to bed and take her rest...
Seite 30 - ... I suspect, so called from the tubular-shape into which they are rolled. Though Lord Bacon explains the ground of the name given to that office in another way, and as follows : — That office of her Majesty's Exchequer, we, by a metaphor, call the pipe, because the whole receipt is finally conveyed into it by the means of divers small pipes or quills, as water into a cistern.
Seite 216 - As the strong eagle in the silent wood, Mindless of warlike rage and hostile care, Plays round the rocky cliff or crystal flood, Till by Jove's high behests call'd out to war, And charg'd with thunder of his angry king, His bosom with the vengeful message glows ; Upward the noble bird directs his wing, And...
Seite 186 - AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron \ What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps ! For though dame Fortune seem to smile. And leer upon him, for a while, She'll after show him, in the nick Of all his glories, a dog-trick. This any man may sing or say I' th
Seite 258 - He relates it only by parcels, and won't give us the whole ; which forces me to bespeak his friends to engage him to lay aside that stingy humour, and gra* tify the publick at once.
Seite 30 - The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then We pout upon the morning, are unapt To give or to forgive : but when we have stuffd These pipes, and these conveyances of blood With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls...