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adjective adverb appears applied Arber's English Garner bears becomes Ben Jonson brought called Celtic Century clipped coined comes common Compounds curious dropped Dutch Dutch words employed England expresses favourite followed fond French French ê gives birth Greek hand head hear hence the later honour horse Howell Hudibras idiom imitation Interjection Italian Julius Cæsar King lady last word Latin letter Lord Lord Macaulay meaning Murray's Dictionary Nash nebulo Northern noun oath Old English old form old phrases old sense old verb old word Palsgrave Participle person play pleonasm Plural prefixed Prepositions printed pronounced proverb replaces revived rime Romance words says Scandinavian Scotch seems seen sentence shagg Shakespere Shakespere's Shakesperian ship soldiers sound of French Spanish stands Substantives supplants Swift talks term Teutonic thee thing thou transitive verb turn Verbal noun vulgar woman writing written younker
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Página 239 - I happened to fall upon, and was infinitely delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Página 240 - I knew, it was real, was not like to bewitch or entice me, when I saw that it was adulterate. I met with several great persons, whom I liked very well ; but could not perceive that any part of their greatness was to be liked or desired, no more than I would be glad or content to be in a storm, though I saw many ships which rid safely and bravely in it: a storm would not agree with my stomach, if it did with my courage.
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Página 239 - I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there. For I remember when I begun to read and to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's parlour. (I know not by what accident, for she herself never in her life read any book but of devotion), but there...
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Página 239 - University ; but was soon torn from thence by that violent public storm which would suffer nothing to stand where it did, but rooted up every plant, even from the princely cedars to me the hyssop. Yet I had as good fortune as could have befallen me in such a tempest; for I was cast by it into the family of one of the best persons, and into the court...
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