Words: Their Use and AbuseS. C. Griggs, 1878 - 384 strán (strany) |
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Strana 17
... becomes visible ; darkness becomes palpable ; silence describes a character ; a word acts as a flash of lightning , which displays some gloomy neighborhood where a tower is standing , with dreadful faces at the window . " The difference ...
... becomes visible ; darkness becomes palpable ; silence describes a character ; a word acts as a flash of lightning , which displays some gloomy neighborhood where a tower is standing , with dreadful faces at the window . " The difference ...
Strana 19
... becomes almost as ductile as the Greek . Ideas that seem to defy expression , -ideas so subtile , or so vague and ... become as soft and elastic as living flesh , and not unlike this is the dominion which the great writers pos- sess ...
... becomes almost as ductile as the Greek . Ideas that seem to defy expression , -ideas so subtile , or so vague and ... become as soft and elastic as living flesh , and not unlike this is the dominion which the great writers pos- sess ...
Strana 25
... becomes associated with a particular act , and the interposition of words be- comes useless . It is well known that persons skilled in gesticulation can communicate by it a long series of facts and even complicated trains of thought ...
... becomes associated with a particular act , and the interposition of words be- comes useless . It is well known that persons skilled in gesticulation can communicate by it a long series of facts and even complicated trains of thought ...
Strana 26
... become blind to its mystery and deep significance . We rarely think of the long and changeful history through which each word we utter has passed , - of the many changes in form and changes in signification it has undergone , - and of ...
... become blind to its mystery and deep significance . We rarely think of the long and changeful history through which each word we utter has passed , - of the many changes in form and changes in signification it has undergone , - and of ...
Strana 27
... becomes necessary to give to each of these elements a name . By virtue of these names we are able to keep them apart in the mind , and to recall them with precision and facility , just as the chemist by the labels on his jars , or the ...
... becomes necessary to give to each of these elements a name . By virtue of these names we are able to keep them apart in the mind , and to recall them with precision and facility , just as the chemist by the labels on his jars , or the ...
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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
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.