Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomIvison, 1880 - Всего страниц: 302 |
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... trace some of the workings of this wondrous law . What an image of fractious human passions must have filled the mind of that poet who first spoke about ' REFRAINING ' therefrom - that is reining ( frænum them in , curbing them with bit ...
... trace some of the workings of this wondrous law . What an image of fractious human passions must have filled the mind of that poet who first spoke about ' REFRAINING ' therefrom - that is reining ( frænum them in , curbing them with bit ...
Стр. 63
... trace their genesis to the time when spells were in vogue . ' CHARM ' is just carmen , from the fact of a sort of runic rhyme having been used in this sort of diablerie . So ' FASCINATION ' recalls the era when the blight of the evil ...
... trace their genesis to the time when spells were in vogue . ' CHARM ' is just carmen , from the fact of a sort of runic rhyme having been used in this sort of diablerie . So ' FASCINATION ' recalls the era when the blight of the evil ...
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... trace it to the Greek sarkazo - to tear the flesh off - literally to ' flay . ' ' SATIRE ' again , has an arbitrary enough origin . It is satira from satur , mixed : the process of derivation being as follows . MEAD AND AMBROSIA . 67 ...
... trace it to the Greek sarkazo - to tear the flesh off - literally to ' flay . ' ' SATIRE ' again , has an arbitrary enough origin . It is satira from satur , mixed : the process of derivation being as follows . MEAD AND AMBROSIA . 67 ...
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... trace the thoughts in the minds of men that have given rise to the various words expressing death . Thus we have the Latin mors -- allied to moros and moira , and hence , that which is allotted , appointed . But both the Hellenic and ...
... trace the thoughts in the minds of men that have given rise to the various words expressing death . Thus we have the Latin mors -- allied to moros and moira , and hence , that which is allotted , appointed . But both the Hellenic and ...
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... trace . I have spoken of our forms of greeting and parting , as ' GOOD - BYE , ' which is just God be wi " you , ' ADIEU , ' I commend you ( à dieu ) to God , ' FAREWELL ' which may you fare or go , well . Perhaps there is to be read in ...
... trace . I have spoken of our forms of greeting and parting , as ' GOOD - BYE , ' which is just God be wi " you , ' ADIEU , ' I commend you ( à dieu ) to God , ' FAREWELL ' which may you fare or go , well . Perhaps there is to be read in ...
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