Eine Geschichte der relativen Pronomina in der englischen Sprache

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Univ.-buchdr. von E.A. Huth, 1882 - English language - 80 pages

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Page 73 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Page 67 - My lords! (says he) with humble submission, That that I say is this; that, That, that that gentleman has advanced, is not That that he should have proved to your lordships.
Page 46 - A KNIGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, That from the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he lovede chyvalrye, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
Page 69 - ... in the country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins.
Page 46 - Al were they sore hurt, and namely oon, That with a spere was thirled his brest boon. To other woundes, and to broken armes, Some hadde salve, and some hadde charmes, Fermacyes of herbes, and eek save They dronken, for they wolde here lyves have.
Page 49 - Now when that ydle Dreame was to him brought, Unto that elfin knight he bad him fly, Where he slept soundly void of evil thought, And with false shewes abuse his fantasy ; In sort as he him schooled privily. And that new creature, borne without her dew, Full of the makers guile, with usage sly He taught to imitate that lady trew.
Page 58 - I chiefly doe inquere ; And shall thee well rewarde to shew the place, In which that wicked wight his dayes doth weare : For to all knighthood it is foule disgrace, That such a cursed creature lives so long a space.
Page 49 - Ladies gentle deeds ; Whose praises having slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broade emongst her learned throng : Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.
Page 65 - TJiat is not only used (a) after a noun preceded by the article, (6) after nouns used vocatively, in order to complete the description of the antecedent by adding some essential characteristics of it. Cf. the following passages : — That used of persons...
Page 50 - For hoped love to winne me certaine hate ? Yet thus perforce he bids me do, or die. Die is my dew ; yet rew my wretched state You, whom my hard avenging destinie Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently. " Your owne deare sake forst me at first to leave My fathers kingdom...

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