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... meaning of others ) , and by the enlargement of the vocabulary from foreign sources . In a word , Old English is the right key to the understanding of modern English ; and those who will not use this key will never open the lock with ...
... meaning of others ) , and by the enlargement of the vocabulary from foreign sources . In a word , Old English is the right key to the understanding of modern English ; and those who will not use this key will never open the lock with ...
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... meaning of the individual words in it ; he may be taught to comprehend its details , its allusions to antiquities , tradition , geography , and history ; and he may observe its rhythm . Next comes a consideration of the poem considered ...
... meaning of the individual words in it ; he may be taught to comprehend its details , its allusions to antiquities , tradition , geography , and history ; and he may observe its rhythm . Next comes a consideration of the poem considered ...
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... meaning as judged by the context . Witness the famous quotation of " One touch of nature makes the whole world kin . " However pretty the sentiment that " a spark of natural feeling awakens sympathy in every man , " nothing can be more ...
... meaning as judged by the context . Witness the famous quotation of " One touch of nature makes the whole world kin . " However pretty the sentiment that " a spark of natural feeling awakens sympathy in every man , " nothing can be more ...
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... meanings and derivations of the following words ; Cristofre - pricasour - chevysaunce - courtepy - vavaser- wymplid - bawdrik - fetysly - motteleye - mormal - rouncy - nose- thurles - acate - vernicle . Explain the phrase " for the ...
... meanings and derivations of the following words ; Cristofre - pricasour - chevysaunce - courtepy - vavaser- wymplid - bawdrik - fetysly - motteleye - mormal - rouncy - nose- thurles - acate - vernicle . Explain the phrase " for the ...
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... meaning and grammatical construction of every word . ( a ) Chaucer's Prologue , beginning " A fewe termes " ( 1. 639 ) ... meanings of the words : namely , avale , unnethe , quyte . Explain " unbokeled is the male , " and " Pilates voys ...
... meaning and grammatical construction of every word . ( a ) Chaucer's Prologue , beginning " A fewe termes " ( 1. 639 ) ... meanings of the words : namely , avale , unnethe , quyte . Explain " unbokeled is the male , " and " Pilates voys ...
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Page 70 - So, oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, wherein they are not guilty, (Since nature cannot choose his origin), By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners...
Page 97 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 84 - Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Page 56 - 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?
Page 98 - Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : For the apparel oft proclaims the man...
Page 97 - Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar ; The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch
Page 66 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 68 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 68 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it.
Page 85 - Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.