A Brief History of the English LanguageMacmillan, 1896 - 267 頁 |
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accent accusative adjectives adverbs affected analogy apheresis became become belong borrowed words Britain Celtic century Chaucer common compounds consonant dative declension dialects diphthong displaced early Modern English England English words example expression final foreign words French words gender genitive grammatical gender Greek guage history of English illustrated important indefinite Indo-European languages inflectional endings inflectional forms influence irregular king later Latin lish literary language literature loss lost Low Franconian Low German masculine meaning Middle English period Midland mutation names native words neuter Norman Norse Northumbrian occur Old English older forms original owing participle personal pronoun Peterborough Chronicle phonetic changes plural poetry prefixes preposition present preserved preterit pronominal regular remained root Scotch similar singular sometimes sounds Southern speech spoken standard stress strong verbs suffix tendency Teutonic languages tongue unstressed syllables usage usually vocabulary weak forms weak verbs West Saxon writers written
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第 121 頁 - O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless endangered heaven's perpetual King, And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate ; Too well I see, and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow, and foul defeat, Hath lost us heaven...
第 122 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 121 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 122 頁 - Pray for my soul. 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 52 頁 - ... of Trent, though no man can deny but that theirs is the purer English Saxon at this day. Yet it is not so courtly nor so current as our Southern English is, no more is the far Western man's speech.
第 123 頁 - ... little and little, into the line of the enemies; the noise of the cannon from both navies reached our ears about the city, so that all men being alarmed with it, and in a dreadful suspense of the event, which they knew was then deciding, every one went following the sound as his fancy led him...
第 120 頁 - Heaven's perpetual King, And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate, Too well I see and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow and foul defeat Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host In horrible destruction laid thus low, As far as...
第 123 頁 - IT was that memorable day in the first summer of the late war, when our navy engaged the Dutch; a day wherein the two most mighty and best appointed fleets which any age had ever seen, disputed the command of the greater half of the globe, 5 the commerce of nations, and the riches of the universe.
第 122 頁 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
第 240 頁 - By the middle of the seventeenth century the present usage, will in the first and shall in the second and third persons to express a promise or threat, shall in the first person and will in the second and third to express futurity, had fully established itself.