Words and Their Ways in English SpeechMacmillan, 1901 - 431 páginas |
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Words and Their Ways in English Speech James Bradstreet Greenough,George Lyman Kittredge Vista completa - 1914 |
Words and Their Ways in English Speech James Bradstreet Greenough,George Lyman Kittredge Vista de fragmentos - 1929 |
Términos y frases comunes
adjective adverb akin American Anglo-Saxon applied associations become borrowed called century CHAPTER Chaucer cognate colloquial comes common Compare compound connected corruption curious dative derived dialect effect Elizabethan England English language English word euphemism Euphuism example expression fact familiar feeling figure folk-etymology French German Greek guage habit Hence humor idea idiom Indo-European inflection influence instance Italian jocose kind later Latin word learned linguistic literally literary language literature meaning merely metaphor Middle English Modern English native word natural Norman Norman Conquest Norman French noun obsolete Old High German Old Norse older once meant one's ordinary origin participle particular peculiar person phrase plural poetical poetry popular etymology pronounced Roman root Saxon seen Shakspere signified similar simply slang Spanish speak speakers special sense stems suffix suggest survives synonym technical tendency term thing thought tion tive tongue vague verb vocabulary vulgar whence
Pasajes populares
Página 374 - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Página 207 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
Página 9 - Rebellious passion ; for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul ; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Página 362 - Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.
Página 36 - For th' other, as great clerks have done. He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts; Where Entity and Quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly; Where truth in person does appear, Like words congeal'd in northern air.
Página 370 - And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side ? who ? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down.
Página 147 - Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin; It had an odd promiscuous tone, As if h...
Página 63 - ... some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and others are in possession of it. I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of mobb and banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Página 63 - The third refinement observable in the letter I send you consists in the choice of certain words invented by some pretty fellows; such as banter, bamboozle, country put, and kidney, as it is there applied; some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and others are in possession of it.
Página 62 - ... and many more, when we are already overloaded with monosyllables, which are the disgrace of our language. Thus we cram one syllable, and cut ofF the rest, as the owl fattened her mice after she had bit off their legs, to prevent them from running away...