The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen and Public SpeakersChatto & Windus, 1874 - Всего страниц: 288 |
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Стр. viii
... song never thoroughly intermingled , and at least nine - tenths of the elegant Gallicisms which he employed found no favour with successive writers ; and few of them have remained , except in the earlier poems of Milton . If we really ...
... song never thoroughly intermingled , and at least nine - tenths of the elegant Gallicisms which he employed found no favour with successive writers ; and few of them have remained , except in the earlier poems of Milton . If we really ...
Стр. xiii
... songs , and made their bravest thrusts and parries in the sparkling encounters of conversation , in the homely speech of their childhood . All this , however , is fast disappearing , and not only the wealthy and titled , who live much ...
... songs , and made their bravest thrusts and parries in the sparkling encounters of conversation , in the homely speech of their childhood . All this , however , is fast disappearing , and not only the wealthy and titled , who live much ...
Стр. xiv
... songs , like those of Dibdin , Moore , and Campbell , however excel- lent they may be as poetical compositions , are , for these reasons , not so available for musical purposes , as the songs of Scotland . An Englishman , if he sings of ...
... songs , like those of Dibdin , Moore , and Campbell , however excel- lent they may be as poetical compositions , are , for these reasons , not so available for musical purposes , as the songs of Scotland . An Englishman , if he sings of ...
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... Song . Besmirch , besmear . Betterness , something better than goodness ; a meaning not to be expressed by the imperfect synonyme , ' amelioration . ' Bevel , out of the level ; crooked . I may be straight , though they themselves be ...
... Song . Besmirch , besmear . Betterness , something better than goodness ; a meaning not to be expressed by the imperfect synonyme , ' amelioration . ' Bevel , out of the level ; crooked . I may be straight , though they themselves be ...
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... Songs of the North of Scotland , occurs the passage , - Your gloves shall be o ' the green clover Come lockerin ' to your hand Well dropped o'er wi ' blue blavers , That grow amang white land . Blee , colour ; appearance ; complexion ...
... Songs of the North of Scotland , occurs the passage , - Your gloves shall be o ' the green clover Come lockerin ' to your hand Well dropped o'er wi ' blue blavers , That grow amang white land . Blee , colour ; appearance ; complexion ...
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adjective Allan Ramsay Allan Ramsay's Scotch America ancient Anglo-Saxon applied auld Ballad Beaumont and Fletcher beautiful Ben Jonson blow bonnie Border Minstrelsy called Cantab Chaucer child common corruption Cumberland Cursor Mundi derived Dictionary diminutive Drayton English Language English word Epistle expression Faerie Queene fair formerly French German grass heart Henry Idem Jonson King lady land lass literature Lord meaning merry Metrical Romance Midsummer Night's Dream Milton Mirror for Magistrates modern word Morte Arthur muckle never night North of England o'er obsolete past participle Percy's Reliques person phrase Piers Ploughman poem poet poetry Polyolbion preterite Provincial Glossary quoted by Halliwell quoted by Nares Ramsay's Scotch Proverbs rede rhyme Robert Burns Romance of Sir root says Scotland Scottish Border sense Shakspeare Shanter Shrew signifies Spenser sweet synonyme Tale thee thou tongue tree verb vulgar whence the modern wife wind
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Стр. 37 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Стр. 212 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth...
Стр. 179 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Стр. 18 - MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo.
Стр. 181 - King ! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us ! God save the King!
Стр. 26 - Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev"n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark ! Now Tam, O Tam ! had thae been queans, A' plump and strapping in their teens ; Their sarks, instead o...
Стр. 49 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Стр. 81 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, "When upward-springing, blythe, to greet, The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth ; Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce rear'd above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High shelt'ring woods and wa's maun shield ; But thou, beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field Unseen, alane.
Стр. 109 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Стр. 191 - Blows in your face. I fear your disposition : That nature which contemns its origin Cannot be border'd certain in itself; She that herself will sliver and disbranch From her material sap, perforce must wither, And come to deadly use.