The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets, Clergymen, and Public SpeakersJ. W. Bouton, 1874 - Всего страниц: 288 |
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... verbs as well as of inflections that ought never to have been allowed to drop out of literature , and which it only needs the efforts of a few great writers and orators to restore to their original favour . Among the losses which the ...
... verbs as well as of inflections that ought never to have been allowed to drop out of literature , and which it only needs the efforts of a few great writers and orators to restore to their original favour . Among the losses which the ...
Стр. xix
... verb in the language is an aggravation of the evil . If this change had been repudiated by our forefathers , a grace ... verbs is greatly to be lamented . We lowen and we -smilen would serve many rhythmical needs , and administer to many ...
... verb in the language is an aggravation of the evil . If this change had been repudiated by our forefathers , a grace ... verbs is greatly to be lamented . We lowen and we -smilen would serve many rhythmical needs , and administer to many ...
Стр. xx
... verbs , some of which are still existing in Scottish parlance , and of the ancient preterites and past participles of many old verbs of which the infinitives and present tenses still hold their places , is the most to be deplored . This ...
... verbs , some of which are still existing in Scottish parlance , and of the ancient preterites and past participles of many old verbs of which the infinitives and present tenses still hold their places , is the most to be deplored . This ...
Стр. xxi
... verb if the duty be bygone or future , as I " musted , " or " I will must , " but have to be translated , as it were ... verbs that are still in use , and of many good English verbs in all their tenses which , without reason , have been ...
... verb if the duty be bygone or future , as I " musted , " or " I will must , " but have to be translated , as it were ... verbs that are still in use , and of many good English verbs in all their tenses which , without reason , have been ...
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... verbs , is more extensively em- ployed by the uneducated than by the educated classes . Bewildered is stronger than ' wildered ; ' or , ' I am beteazed by the children from morning till night , ' than ' teazed . ' ' I am sore besmitten ...
... verbs , is more extensively em- ployed by the uneducated than by the educated classes . Bewildered is stronger than ' wildered ; ' or , ' I am beteazed by the children from morning till night , ' than ' teazed . ' ' I am sore besmitten ...
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The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets ... Charles Mackay Полный просмотр - 1874 |
The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets ... Charles Mackay Полный просмотр - 1879 |
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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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