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accent addition adjectives adverbs alphabet amongst ancient Angles Anglo Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon forms aorist Beda Britain called Celtic CHAPTER classical combination compared compound word consonant Danish dative declension dialects diminutive dual number Dutch ejection element England English language etymology expression feminine French Gaelic gender genitive Gothic languages Greek Hence Icelandic idea indefinite article inflection Isle Jutes Jutland Latin Latin language letter masculine meaning Middle High German Modern English Moso-Gothic natural neuter Norse nouns Old English Old Frisian Old High German Old Saxon original British orthography participle passive Plur plural forms præterite preposition present English processes pronoun radical reduplicate relation Roman root Scandinavian Scandinavian languages semivowel sense settlement of invaders simple single Sing singular smiðum speak spoken strong verbs substantive syllable syntax tense term termination th in thin tion tive tribes true vowel Welsh wherein whilst word irregular
Popular passages
Page 265 - QUEEN and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy...
Page 263 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 263 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 269 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally, he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Page 263 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 201 - She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 281 - HODGSON -MYTHOLOGY FOR LATIN VERSIFICATION. A brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse for Schools.
Page 267 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape...
Page 280 - New Latin Delectus ; being Sentences for Translation from Latin into English, and English into Latin; arranged in a systematic Progression.
Page 279 - Numismatic Manual: or. Guide to the Collection and Study of Greek, Roman, and English Coins. Illustrated by Engravings of many hundred types, by means of which even imperfect and obliterated pieces may be easily deciphered.