Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Zväzok 16

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Harvard University Press, 1905
 

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Strana 25 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Strana 25 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Strana 25 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance : Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Strana 142 - ... too long now by a number of inches, would trip him or have to be gathered up in most untragic manner. But some will not be willing to grant that the shoes were taken off. Robert, himself, having become convinced from a little painting found in Herculaneum of the use of an eight or ten-inch sole in the fifth century, took back his earlier assertion and formulated the hypothesis that there was here only a show of taking off the shoes, and that they were kept on in reality. This hypothesis is not...
Strana 66 - Die aufgäbe der indogermanischen Sprachwissenschaft ist, nachzuweisen, welches die formen der Ursprache waren, und auf welchen wegen daraus die der einzelsprachen entstanden sind.
Strana 86 - Quaerat etiam sitne apud Graecos vis quaedam sexti casus et apud nos quoque septimi. Nam cum dico 'hasta percussi', non utor ablativi natura, nee si idem Graece dicam, dativi.
Strana 152 - Fortunae gravesque principum amicitias et arma nondum expiatis uncta cruoribus, periculosae plenum opus aleae, tractas et incedis per ignes suppositos cineri doloso.
Strana 72 - Primitive linguistic units must have been much more complicated in point of meaning, as well as much longer in point of sound, than those with which we are most familiar.
Strana 72 - Again, we saw above that the further back we went, the more the sentence was one indissoluble whole, in which those elements which we are accustomed to think of as single words were not yet separated,
Strana 72 - English) with freely combinable elements ; the starting-point was flexional languages (such as Latin or Greek) ; at a still earlier stage we must suppose a language in which a verbal form might indicate not only six things, like cantavisset, but a still larger number, in which verbs were perhaps modified according to the gender (or sex) of the subject, as they are in Semitic languages, or according to the object, as in some Amerindian languages, or according to whether a man, a woman, or a person...

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