The History of the English LanguageMacmillan, 1894 - 415 頁 |
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accent adjectives adverbs analogy became become belong borrowed words Celtic century Chaucer common compounds conquest consonant shift dative declension dental dialects diphthong early Modern English ELEMENT IN ENGLISH ending England English words especially example final FOREIGN ELEMENT foreign words French words gender genitive gradation Greek guage High German i-mutation important Indo-European inflectional inflectional forms influence labial later Latin lish literary language literature lost Low German Mercian Middle English Middle English period Midland mutation neuter Norman Norse nouns occur Old English Old French older original palatal plural poetry prefix preserved preterit and participle regular remained root Sanskrit Shakespeare short vowels similar singular sometimes sound speech spirants spoken standard stems stress strong verbs suffix syllable tendency Teutonic languages tongue unstressed Verner's law vocabulary vocalized voiced voiceless vowel W. W. SKEAT weak verbs West Saxon
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第 325 頁 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
第 127 頁 - WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open eye, So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
第 131 頁 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
第 130 頁 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
第 131 頁 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
第 129 頁 - WHAT is Truth?" said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be . gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
第 129 頁 - O Prince, O Chief of many throned Powers, ( That led the embattled Seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds 130 Fearless endanger'd Heaven's perpetual king, And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether Upheld by strength, or chance, or fate...
第 132 頁 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend ? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
第 5 頁 - Gallic is little known except through names quoted by Greek and Latin authors, or through inscriptions and coins. Britannic includes the Cymric, or Welsh, the Cornish, and the Armorican of northwest France. Welsh and Armorican are known from the eighth or ninth centuries, Cornish from a somewhat later period. The latter also became extinct at the end of the last, or the beginning of the present, century.
第 130 頁 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness...