A Tractate on Language: With Observations on the French Tongue, Eastern Tongues and Times, and Chapters on Literal Symbols, Philology and Letters, Figures of Speech, Rhyme, Time and LongevityH.G. Bohn, 1860 - 388 ページ |
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accent adjective admit adverb affinity alphabet analogy ancient aorists applied Aristotle aspirate beauty Celtic characters Chinese composition conjunction consonant copula dative denotes derived dialect digamma diphthong English Eolic equivalent existence expressed figure French gender genitive genus German gerund grammar grammarians Greece Hebrew hence Herodotus Homer ideas identical implies infinitive mood inflection Italian language Latin learned letter Lord Lowth means Milton modern nations nature neuter never nominative noun omitted origin orthography Oscan participle passive Pelasgic perfect Persian person philosophers phrase Plautus plural poetry poets possession preceded predicate prefixed preposition preterit pronoun pronounced pronunciation Quintilian remarks rhyme Roman Rome Sanskrit Saxon says sense sentence Shakspere shew signify singular sound speech styled subjunctive subjunctive mood substantive syllable syllepsis symbols synonymous taste tenses term termination thee things thou thought tion tongue Tractate variety verb verse vocables vowels words writing written
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323 ページ - Pure as the expanse of heaven ; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me : I started back, « It started back : but pleased I soon return'd, Pleased it return'd as soon with answering looks Of .sympathy and love...
313 ページ - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
311 ページ - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
306 ページ - Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The Hell within him; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place...
263 ページ - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
315 ページ - Alas, both for the deed and for the cause ! But have I now seen death ? Is this the way I must return to native dust ? O sight Of terror, foul and ugly to behold, Horrid to think, how horrible to feel...
159 ページ - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
48 ページ - Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
373 ページ - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
312 ページ - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.