Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomC. Scribner, 1859 - Всего страниц: 302 |
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... employ in the same sense as taste : thus , " men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle as dressed up by the schoolmen . " How utterly sensuous ! Shakespeare , however , follows in the same direction : " Devotion , patience ...
... employ in the same sense as taste : thus , " men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle as dressed up by the schoolmen . " How utterly sensuous ! Shakespeare , however , follows in the same direction : " Devotion , patience ...
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... at him ! ' RESPECTABLE ' has , however , been sadly degenerating these late years , being now chiefly employed to designate decayed gentility or mental mediocrity . ' SEER , ' again , is simply one who 28 Ramble Second .
... at him ! ' RESPECTABLE ' has , however , been sadly degenerating these late years , being now chiefly employed to designate decayed gentility or mental mediocrity . ' SEER , ' again , is simply one who 28 Ramble Second .
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... employed to assist them in their arithmetical difficulties . A ludicrous example of this same attempt to tint things up couleur de rose is furnished in the word ' PAMPER , ' a term which the Italians have given us— being , I believe ...
... employed to assist them in their arithmetical difficulties . A ludicrous example of this same attempt to tint things up couleur de rose is furnished in the word ' PAMPER , ' a term which the Italians have given us— being , I believe ...
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... employ it but to express that cringing compliance that leads one to follow after the favor or fancy of another , or shape one's principles or practice according to his whims . And lastly I may mention the term ' GOSSIP ' which tells a ...
... employ it but to express that cringing compliance that leads one to follow after the favor or fancy of another , or shape one's principles or practice according to his whims . And lastly I may mention the term ' GOSSIP ' which tells a ...
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... employed in writing on their tablets ; and as they were both sharp and strong they were capable of being made a very formidable weapon . Cæsar himself , it is supposed , got his quietus by means of a stylus . Many who have felt the ...
... employed in writing on their tablets ; and as they were both sharp and strong they were capable of being made a very formidable weapon . Cæsar himself , it is supposed , got his quietus by means of a stylus . Many who have felt the ...
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Abusive adjective æsthetic allusion antique appellation application asserted beauty becomes beeing Ben Jonson called Canterbury Tales Chaucer corruption Cratylus curious derivation Diversions of Purley element embalmed employed English Language English speech ethical etymology Euphuistic example expression fact Falstaff fancy fantastic French German give grand Greek guage hath heart hence Henry IV hodden Horne Tooke human humor idea idioms important instance Italian Jacob Grimm jeu parti King Latin laws literally living LOCO-FOCO meaning merely metaphor mind modern moral nature noble Norman one's opprobrious origin Othello passage passion person phrase Piers Ploughman poetry present primary primitive Purley Ramble rich Roman root Sartor Resartus Saxon Scotch sense Shakespeare significant signification simply speak spirit strange Synonyms Tale tell term thee things thou thought tion tongue truth utterance verb verbal Verstegan Webster whence wont word
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Стр. 261 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages), Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
Стр. 71 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Стр. 54 - Mother of this unfathomable world ! Favour my solemn song, for I have loved Thee ever, and thee only : I have watched Thy shadow, and the darkness of thy steps, And my heart ever gazes on the depth Of thy deep mysteries.
Стр. 24 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Стр. 187 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Стр. 57 - ... needed to shape and coin a word for, — what thou callest a metaphor, trope, or the like ? For every word we have, there was such a man and poet. The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor, and bold questionable originality. " Thy very ATTENTION, does it not mean an attentio, a STRETCHING-TO ? " Fancy that act of the mind, which all were conscious of, which none had yet named, — when this new " poet " first felt bound and driven to name it ! His questionable originality, and new glowing...
Стр. 69 - In fact, unity, agreement is always silent, or soft-voiced ; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself. So long as the several elements of Life, all fitly adjusted, can pour forth their movement like harmonious tuned strings, it is a melody and unison ; Life, from its mysterious fountains, flows out as in celestial music and diapason, — which also, like that other music of the spheres, even because it is perennial and complete, without interruption and without imperfection, might be fabled...
Стр. 121 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrops of the world Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owedst yesterday. Massinger's is a general rhetorical question, the language just and pure, but colourless. Shakespeare's has particular significance; and the adjective 'drowsy* and the verb 'medicine
Стр. 60 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Стр. 86 - Money. Yet hereby did Barter grow Sale, the Leather Money is now Golden and Paper, and all miracles have been out-miracled : for there are Rothschilds and English National Debts ; and whoso has sixpence is Sovereign (to the length of sixpence...