Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English LanguageHoughton, Mifflin, 1927 - 439 pages |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language Richard Grant White Affichage du livre entier - 1892 |
Words and Their Uses: Past and Present; a Sutdy of the English Language. Rev ... Richard Grant White Affichage du livre entier - 1901 |
Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language Richard Grant White Affichage du livre entier - 1892 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
absurdity action Addison adjective Æneid American Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language authority auxiliary verbs better boys Briticism British called Chaucer common compound confusion criticism dative dictionary distinction educated England English language etymology example existence express fact feminine following passage French gender girl give grammar grammarians Greek guage heard hundred hydropathy idiom inflection instance king lady Latin Latin language latter learned less lish meaning meant merely misuse mood newspapers noun object participle passive passive voice perfect periphrasis person perversion phrase plural possession present preterite pronoun puellam question readers reason seems sense sentence Shakespeare simple singular speak speakers speech style subjunctive mood substantive superfluous sure tence tense thing thou thought tion tongue transitive verb transpire usage verb verbal voice Webster's Dictionary woman word writers written wrote
Fréquemment cités
Page 281 - Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately ; and that night they caught nothing.
Page 105 - A certain man made a great supper, and bade many : and sent his servant, at supper time, to say to them that were bidden, Come ; for all things are now ready. And they all, with one consent, began to make excuse.
Page 56 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 318 - Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him.
Page 64 - That cherubim, which now appears as a God to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is : nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection, as much as she now falls short of it.
Page 268 - Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? — Do they call "virtue
Page 58 - The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects.
Page 60 - He can converse with a picture and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Page 374 - Just what you hear you have; and what's unknown The same, my lord, if Tully's or your own. All that we feel of it begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends; To all beside as much an empty shade...
Page 83 - As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.