Words: Their Use and AbuseS. C. Griggs, 1878 - 384 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... whole Third Estate of a nation . Their words are not merely things , but living things , endowed with power not only to communicate ideas , but to convey , as by spiritual conductors , the shock and thrill which attended their birth ...
... whole Third Estate of a nation . Their words are not merely things , but living things , endowed with power not only to communicate ideas , but to convey , as by spiritual conductors , the shock and thrill which attended their birth ...
Pagina 16
... whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying ' Open Wheat . ' ' Open Barley , ' to the ...
... whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he who should then hope to conjure with it would find himself as much mistaken as Cassim in the Arabian tale , when he stood crying ' Open Wheat . ' ' Open Barley , ' to the ...
Pagina 21
... , whose exterior roughness veiled a great deal of mother wit , happily characterized this whole tribe of lexicographers by a remark he once made to a Western member of Congress . When the latter , in a THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS . 21.
... , whose exterior roughness veiled a great deal of mother wit , happily characterized this whole tribe of lexicographers by a remark he once made to a Western member of Congress . When the latter , in a THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS . 21.
Pagina 23
... whole range of our language completely under his control . One of the most distinguished American au- thors is said to be in the habit of reading the dictionary through about once a year . His choice of fresh and force- ful terms has ...
... whole range of our language completely under his control . One of the most distinguished American au- thors is said to be in the habit of reading the dictionary through about once a year . His choice of fresh and force- ful terms has ...
Pagina 23
... roughness veiled a great deal of mother wit , happily characterized this whole tribe of lexicographers by a remark he once made to a Western 66 one whose every word is full - freighted with suggestion THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS . 21.
... roughness veiled a great deal of mother wit , happily characterized this whole tribe of lexicographers by a remark he once made to a Western 66 one whose every word is full - freighted with suggestion THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS . 21.
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adjective ages Anglo-Saxon Archbishop Whately beauty called century character charm Cicero common corruption Demosthenes derived diction dictionary distinction eloquence England English language etymologists etymology expression fact familiar feeling force French genius German give Greek guage heart human hundred ideas intellectual J. H. Newman Latin learned less letter literature living London Lord Max Müller meaning meant Milton mind modern monosyllables moral murder nations nature never nickname once orator origin passage persons phrases poet poetry reader remarkable reply rhetoric rience Roman Roundhead Rufus Choate SAMUEL BAILEY Saxon says secret sense sentence Shakspeare significance solecisms sophism soul sound speak speakers speech spirit style Sydney Smith syllables talk tell term things thought Thucydides tion tongue translation true truth utterance verb verbal verse vocabulary vulgar W. D. WHITNEY whole words writer
Populaire passages
Pagina 129 - The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Pagina 366 - Three years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said: "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Pagina 129 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Pagina 122 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Pagina 182 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe— into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Pagina 140 - While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Pagina 324 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Pagina 253 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure.
Pagina 77 - John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, - without Greek Contrived to talk about the Gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate: 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article.
Pagina 174 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.