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Pagina 172
... language also transmits thought through boundless time and space . Per- haps we are right in regarding this utility side of language , this service as a vehicle of thought , as the more important aspect of language . We know very well ...
... language also transmits thought through boundless time and space . Per- haps we are right in regarding this utility side of language , this service as a vehicle of thought , as the more important aspect of language . We know very well ...
Pagina 204
... language , your language having as a rule a regular rhythm and a recurrent metre . Com- position " in verse or metrical language does not always come within this description ; but , then , a good deal of metrical com- position is no ...
... language , your language having as a rule a regular rhythm and a recurrent metre . Com- position " in verse or metrical language does not always come within this description ; but , then , a good deal of metrical com- position is no ...
Pagina 317
... Language originates in usage , in what people are accustomed to do . Reason may insist , may prove up to the hilt , that such and such a usage is quite erroneous . Custom prevails for all that . The language goes on its way unperturbed ...
... Language originates in usage , in what people are accustomed to do . Reason may insist , may prove up to the hilt , that such and such a usage is quite erroneous . Custom prevails for all that . The language goes on its way unperturbed ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing