The History of the English LanguageMacmillan, 1906 - 415 頁 |
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accent adjectives adverbs already analogy became become belong borrowed words Celtic century Chaucer common compounds conquest consonant shift dative declension dental dialects diphthong early Modern English element ending England English words especially example final 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 native words neuter Norman Norse nouns occur Old English Old French older original palatal perfect participle plural 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 weak forms weak verbs West Saxon
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第 127 頁 - Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open ye, (So priketh hem nature in hir corages) : Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
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 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. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride...
第 131 頁 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
第 128 頁 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
第 5 頁 - The latter also became extinct at the end of the last, or the beginning of the present, century.
第 129 頁 - ... of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.
第 132 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 129 頁 - ... knew was then deciding, every one went following the sound as his fancy led him; and leaving the town almost empty, some took towards the park, some cross the river, others down it; all seeking the noise in the depth of silence.
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 ; Too well I see and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow, and foul defeat, 135 Hath lost us Heaven...