Outlines of English Literature: By Thomas B. Shaw |
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... importance to our present subject , the language spoken at the present day by the descendants of such a creole race would have resembled the French or the Spanish ; that is to say , it would have been a dialect bearing the physiognomic ...
... importance to our present subject , the language spoken at the present day by the descendants of such a creole race would have resembled the French or the Spanish ; that is to say , it would have been a dialect bearing the physiognomic ...
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... important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and artificial , are expressed in English by words so evidently of Teutonic origin - nay , so slightly varied from Teutonic forms - that a ...
... important rule , we shall find that all the primary ideas , and all the simpler objects , natural and artificial , are expressed in English by words so evidently of Teutonic origin - nay , so slightly varied from Teutonic forms - that a ...
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... importance , even its correct sound . * If the German pronunciation of w be the correct and original one , either ... important , for it is only sufficient to reflect on the immense number of words in German , English , and , in short ...
... importance , even its correct sound . * If the German pronunciation of w be the correct and original one , either ... important , for it is only sufficient to reflect on the immense number of words in German , English , and , in short ...
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... importance of the work , as a historical document , becomes im- measurably greater as it approaches the period when it was discon- tinued ; the description of the more recent events , and the portraits of contemporary personages ...
... importance of the work , as a historical document , becomes im- measurably greater as it approaches the period when it was discon- tinued ; the description of the more recent events , and the portraits of contemporary personages ...
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... important in the history of the literature , and consequently in that of the language also . It was in this century that Wickliffe , in popularising religion , tended also so powerfully to popularise language : it was in this century ...
... important in the history of the literature , and consequently in that of the language also . It was in this century that Wickliffe , in popularising religion , tended also so powerfully to popularise language : it was in this century ...
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Page 299 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 236 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 243 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 246 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 170 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 136 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 146 - To whom the good man replied, "My dear George, if Saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me: but labour — as indeed -I do daily — to submit mine to his will, and possess my soul in patience and peace.
Page 125 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 216 - Though mark'd by none but quick, poetic eyes : (So Rome's great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view :) A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
Page 193 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.