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Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Words and Their Ways in English Speech James Bradstreet Greenough,George Lyman Kittredge Úplné zobrazenie - 1914 |
Words and Their Ways in English Speech James Bradstreet Greenough,George Lyman Kittredge Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1929 |
Časté výrazy a frázy
adjective adverb American American Dialect Society Anglo-Saxon applied associations became become borrowed called century Chaucer cognate colloquial comes common Compare compound connected corruption curious derived dialect Dictionary effect Elizabethan England English language English word euphemism Euphuism example expression fact familiar feeling figure folk-etymology Greek guage Hence idea Indo-European inflection influence instance Italian jocose kind lady later Latin word learned legitimate speech linguistic literally literary language Lond Lydford law meaning merely Middle English Modern English native word natural Norman noun obsolete Old French Old High German Old Norse older once meant one's ordinary origin participle particular peculiar person phrase plural poetical poetry popular etymology pronunciation Roman root Saxon seen Shakspere signified similar slang Spanish speak special sense stems suffix suggestion survives syllable synonym technical teetotum tendency term thing thought tion tive tongue utterance vague verb vocabulary vulgar whence
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Strana 313 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Strana 217 - O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Strana 36 - For th' other, as great clerks have done. He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts; Where Entity and Quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly; Where truth in person does appear, Like words congeal'd in northern air.
Strana 378 - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Strana 207 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
Strana 9 - Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Strana 11 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.
Strana 63 - I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Strana 374 - And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side ? who ? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down.
Strana 147 - Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin; It had an odd promiscuous tone, As if h...