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-Saxon applied aspirate belongs bend Bije BILDERDIJK bring called CHAUCER chop contracted participle present derives dialect dije dijen direction of sense Doogh Dutch ellipsis etymology evidently explained expression favour fellow female fetch fool formerly spelt French German grete grounded groundedly hand head heart heet heeten Hence herte hold hoon HORNE TOOKE horse HUDIBRAS IBID IDEM ijse implying import intermutating Italian JOHNSON says JOSEPH SCALIGER keye labour language Latin literal form maie meaning mede meê metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite pronounce prosopopoeia quoth regard Saxon schie SHAKSPEARE shrewd sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect taele tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE travesty trope turn utter verb whence Wijse word wote
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Seite 170 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood ; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Seite 223 - FAIRFAX, whose name in arms through Europe rings, Filling each mouth with envy or with praise, And all her jealous monarchs with amaze, And rumours loud that daunt remotest kings ; Thy firm unshaken virtue ever brings Victory home, though new rebellions raise Their Hydra heads, and the false North displays Her broken league to imp their serpent wings. O yet a nobler task awaits thy hand (For what can war, but endless war still breed...
Seite 145 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of...
Seite 140 - 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 67 - Lo here, of payens corsed olde rites, Lo here, what alle hire goddes may availle; Lo here, thise wrecched worldes appetites; Lo here, the fyn and guerdoun for travaille Of Jove, Appollo, of Mars, of swich rascaille! Lo here, the forme of olde clerkis speche In poetrie, if ye hire bokes seche.
Seite 34 - 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. And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic.
Seite 132 - 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 290 - I," said the Sparrow, "With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin." Who saw him die? "I," said the Fly, "With my little eye, I saw him die.
Seite 112 - When nature cannot work, the effect of art is void : For physic can but mend our crazy state, Patch an old building, not a new create.
Seite 75 - Tis not for nothing that we life pursue ; It pays our hopes with something still that's new : Each day's a mistress, unenjoyed before ; Like travellers, we're pleased with seeing more. Did you but know what joys your way attend, You would not hurry to your journey's end.