Old Words and Modern Meanings: Being a Collection of Examples from Ancient and Modern English Authors, Illustrating Some Changes in the Use of LanguageThomas Whitcombe Greene Longmans and Company, 1876 - 314 pages |
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... tell stories . - BACON . Advise if this be worth Attempting , or to sit in darkness here Hatching vain Empires . - MILTON . I advise people always to go to a place which has some local advantage such as the sea , a forest , river , or ...
... tell stories . - BACON . Advise if this be worth Attempting , or to sit in darkness here Hatching vain Empires . - MILTON . I advise people always to go to a place which has some local advantage such as the sea , a forest , river , or ...
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... tell me is gone by , and that these things are childish . Then why not gratify the children by letting them stand ? Is the world all grown up - is childhood dead ? Or is there not in the bosoms of the wisest and the best some of the ...
... tell me is gone by , and that these things are childish . Then why not gratify the children by letting them stand ? Is the world all grown up - is childhood dead ? Or is there not in the bosoms of the wisest and the best some of the ...
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... tell us our fortunes . Sweethearts , said he , are the things they live upon ; a beldam of the crew after having examined my lines told me that I loved a pretty maid , and that I was a good woman's man . - SPECTATOR . Bent . Used by ...
... tell us our fortunes . Sweethearts , said he , are the things they live upon ; a beldam of the crew after having examined my lines told me that I loved a pretty maid , and that I was a good woman's man . - SPECTATOR . Bent . Used by ...
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... tell all would passen any bible That o where is . - CHAUCER , The Canon's Tale . At the time when that odious style which deforms the writings of Hall and of Lord Bacon was almost universal , had appeared that stupendous work the ...
... tell all would passen any bible That o where is . - CHAUCER , The Canon's Tale . At the time when that odious style which deforms the writings of Hall and of Lord Bacon was almost universal , had appeared that stupendous work the ...
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... A loosely - tied bundle of hay . The ex- pression is still used in some of the northern counties . Is that a cook of London , with meschance ? Do him come forth , he knoweth his penance , BRAG - BRAND . For he shall tell a talé.
... A loosely - tied bundle of hay . The ex- pression is still used in some of the northern counties . Is that a cook of London , with meschance ? Do him come forth , he knoweth his penance , BRAG - BRAND . For he shall tell a talé.
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admiration Antony and Cleopatra applied Ballad BEAUMONT and FLETCHER beauty better Cæsar called character CHAUCER colour Cymbeline death delight DISRAELI doth dread DRYDEN English eyes Fairy Queen favour feel Formerly FULLER genius Gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona give grace hand hath head hear heaven Henry VI Henry VIII honour Horace Walpole human JONSON Julius Cæsar kind King labour lady LAMB language literal live look Lord MACAULAY mankind manner ment merry Milton mind miserable modern nature never night noble observe obsolete old meaning old writers Once orator Paradise Lost passed passion PEPYS person pleasure poet Pope present Prince quaint Richard III sense SHAKSPEARE Shrew Sir Roger SPENSER spirit sweet SYDNEY SMITH Tale taste TAYLOR thee things thou thought Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night unto Version WALPOLE WALTER SCOTT whole word young
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Page 274 - Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 231 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 82 - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
Page 257 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, I say literally glowed, when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Page 85 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 36 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as . a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical . terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly...
Page 287 - I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town — the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction.
Page 102 - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
Page 19 - Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.
Page 57 - I have often been pleased to hear disputes adjusted between an inhabitant of Japan and an alderman of London, or to see a subject of the great mogul entering into a league with one of the Czar of Muscovy.