The English Language: Its Grammar, History, and Literature, with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and PunctuationD.C. Heath & Company, 1887 - 466 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... syllable is added , the previous vowel is often modified : as in cat , kitten ; cock , chicken ; cook , kitchen . ) ( iv ) Drake , formerly endrake ; end = duck , and rake = king . The word therefore means king of the ducks . ( The word ...
... syllable is added , the previous vowel is often modified : as in cat , kitten ; cock , chicken ; cook , kitchen . ) ( iv ) Drake , formerly endrake ; end = duck , and rake = king . The word therefore means king of the ducks . ( The word ...
Pagina 16
... syllable to the sing . ( ii ) Nouns ending in f change the sharp f into a flat v , as in beeves , etc. But we say roofs , cliffs , dwarfs , chiefs , etc. ( iii ) An old singular of lady was ladie ; and this spelling is preserved in the ...
... syllable to the sing . ( ii ) Nouns ending in f change the sharp f into a flat v , as in beeves , etc. But we say roofs , cliffs , dwarfs , chiefs , etc. ( iii ) An old singular of lady was ladie ; and this spelling is preserved in the ...
Pagina 17
... syllable is added to a word , the vowel of the preceding syllable is often weakened . Thus we find nātion , nătional ; fox , vixen . Now the oldest plurals of the above words had an additional syllable ; and it is to this that the ...
... syllable is added to a word , the vowel of the preceding syllable is often weakened . Thus we find nātion , nătional ; fox , vixen . Now the oldest plurals of the above words had an additional syllable ; and it is to this that the ...
Pagina 32
... syllables ( the last ending in a consonant ) or more , by placing the adverb more before the adjective . RULES : I. A silent e is dropped ; as brave , braver . II . A y after a consonant is changed into i before er , etc .; as happy ...
... syllables ( the last ending in a consonant ) or more , by placing the adverb more before the adjective . RULES : I. A silent e is dropped ; as brave , braver . II . A y after a consonant is changed into i before er , etc .; as happy ...
Pagina 33
... syllables ( the last ending in a consonant ) or more , by placing the adverb most before the adjective . ( i ) Happiest ; most recent ; most beautiful . 20. Some adjectives , from the very nature of the ideas they express , do not admit ...
... syllables ( the last ending in a consonant ) or more , by placing the adverb most before the adjective . ( i ) Happiest ; most recent ; most beautiful . 20. Some adjectives , from the very nature of the ideas they express , do not admit ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 234 - Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished! Reply, reply. It is engendered in the eyes. With gazing fed ; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy's knell : I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.
Pagina 165 - Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Pagina 348 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Pagina 81 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Pagina 328 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Pagina 301 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Pagina 346 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Pagina 328 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Pagina 102 - But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Pagina 326 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.