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... forcible and appropriate metaphors are poetry of the highest order ; but they are like- wise the expressions most natural to the speaker . The writings of the Old Testament afford some of the oldest , and at the same time the finest ...
... forcible and appropriate metaphors are poetry of the highest order ; but they are like- wise the expressions most natural to the speaker . The writings of the Old Testament afford some of the oldest , and at the same time the finest ...
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... forcible and good style . The parent race , unpolished as it was , has left to its more polished descendants the legacy of a language which served the common purposes of life , and which necessarily partook of the character of the ...
... forcible and good style . The parent race , unpolished as it was , has left to its more polished descendants the legacy of a language which served the common purposes of life , and which necessarily partook of the character of the ...
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... forcible , terse , and varied expression ? It should always be remembered , when we be- gin to write , that letters are but a perpetuation of spoken words : -the earliest records of most countries , even their philosophy and science ...
... forcible , terse , and varied expression ? It should always be remembered , when we be- gin to write , that letters are but a perpetuation of spoken words : -the earliest records of most countries , even their philosophy and science ...
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... are not Teutonic are Norman- French . The use of this class of words will be found characteristic of Addison . They form an elegant , but not a forcible style . And some too near that rolling torrent lie , Whose INTRODUCTION . 19.
... are not Teutonic are Norman- French . The use of this class of words will be found characteristic of Addison . They form an elegant , but not a forcible style . And some too near that rolling torrent lie , Whose INTRODUCTION . 19.
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... forcible expression or guessed that much of the charm of his style was its thoroughly Saxon character ; his imitators undoubtedly have been far from divining this passages may be found where he has purposely availed himself of the rich ...
... forcible expression or guessed that much of the charm of his style was its thoroughly Saxon character ; his imitators undoubtedly have been far from divining this passages may be found where he has purposely availed himself of the rich ...
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accusative action Addison adjective adverb agent alike Anglo-Saxon arrangement becomes called CAPTAIN compound tenses Concord conjunction dative declension defective auxiliaries derived distinction dual number English language farther feminine forcible gefeɲa gender genitive German govern grammarian Greek GREEK PHILOSOPHY guage gular hath horse idioms IMPERATIVE Mode implies INDICATIVE MODE INFINITIVE MODE inflection INTERJECTION interrogatively LADY NEUBRUNN Latin Lord Lord Byron love We Thou masculine modern languages nations neuter nominative noun Participle past Participle present PASSIVE VOICE peculiar person or thing phrase plural possessive pronoun preposition pression primitive pronoun PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR regular verb relative require rule Saxon sense sentence Shakespeare signifies simple future Sing singular sion Smith Southey speak speaker speech stand SUBJUNCTIVE MODE tence termed termination Teutonic thee THEKLA Thou hadst Ye thought tion tive translation universal grammar usual place verb transitive wholly indeclinable words writing
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Page 15 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Page 117 - And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest ; as with the servant, so with his master ; as with the maid, so with her mistress ; as with the buyer, so with the seller ; as with the lender, so with the borrower ; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Page 43 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 44 - The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them: if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm...
Page 9 - I shall do so ; But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
Page 15 - And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
Page 19 - SHUT, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages ! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out : Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 5 They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Page 9 - But I must also feel it as a man : I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part ? Sinful...
Page 106 - I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father ; Royal Dane, O, answer me ! Let me not burst in ignorance ; but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements...
Page 17 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...