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Outlines of the History of the English Language George L (George Lillie) 1798-1 Craik No preview available - 2015 |
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adjective Aelfsig ancient Angles Anglian Anglian dialect Anglo-Saxon appears Beda Britain Britons Brunne called Celtic Celtic languages Chaucer commonly consonant Danes Danish dialect distinct syllable distinguished Early English edition Edward Engelond England English language Frederic Madden French French language Gaul gode Gothic grammar guage Guest hath Henry History House of Commons inflectional internal evidence Jutes King kingdom land Latin latter Layamon literary literature lond lord Low Germanic middle Middle English modern name sound Nennius Norman Conquest Normandy northern original Ormin Ormulum peculiarities perhaps Period plural population present probably pronounced pronunciation reign Rhythms Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Roman sayd Scandinavian seide Semi-Saxon shut sound singular Sir Frederic South southern speak speech spoken Tacitus termination thaet ther thou thurg tion tongue translation tyme Tyrwhitt verb vowel vowel sound Welsh words writing written yeres
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Page 162 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 162 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood, binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties, adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family...
Page 158 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 140 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 173 - ... also the youngest ! Hush, whisper whilst we talk of her / Her kingdom is not large, or else no flesh should live ; but within that kingdom all power is hers. Her head, turreted like that of Cybele, rises almost beyond the reach of sight. She droops not ; and her eyes rising so high might be hidden by distance ; but, being what they are, they cannot be hidden ; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for...
Page 157 - In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...
Page 174 - ... in whom the heart trembles and the brain rocks under conspiracies of tempest from without and tempest from within. Madonna moves with uncertain steps, fast or slow, but still with tragic grace. Our Lady of Sighs creeps timidly and stealthily. But this youngest sister moves with incalculable motions, bounding, and with a tiger's leaps.
Page 158 - It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe that, if our language is not here fully displayed, I have only failed in an attempt which no human powers have hitherto completed.
Page 162 - Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity. This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.* Ey this means our liberty becomes a noble freedom.
Page 173 - Cybele, 1 rises almost beyond the reach of sight. She droops not; and her eyes, rising so high, might be hidden by distance. But, being what they are, they cannot be...