Englische Studien, Volume 45O. R. Reisland, 1917 - Comparative linguistics "Zeitschrift für englische Philologie" (varies slightly). |
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accusative adverb Anglo-Irish author Blackfriars book buch Byron case century Chaucer common compound construction Cynewulf Dialect dichter Dorian drama Eccho einfluß England Englische Studien ersten examples find first following form found Gaelic gedichte genitive gerund given good grammatik great Hamlet hand heißt Heywood Hoops house idiom infinitive influence instances Irish John Mason John Shakespeare Jonson Kraupa kunst Lady language läßt later leben life lights London Lord made make Manfred meaning Middle English modern Mont Blanc muß nasal never night noun object occurs Old English Oscar Wilde participle personen place play Playboy poems point preposition present private theatres raper read roman same scenes schluß schüler seems sentence Shad Shakespeare Shelley Sidney Lee sprache stage stück subject suspense syllables take thing Thomas Heywood thou time tragödie unsere used verb verbal verfasser werk Widsith Wilde wolde words work wort writer years
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Page 161 - Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 343 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thq branches thereof.
Page 161 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast Thou too again, stupendous Mountain!
Page 189 - That the stage is now by his pains a thousand times better and more glorious than ever heretofore. Now, waxcandles, and many of them ; then, not above 3 Ibs. of tallow ; now, all things civil, no rudeness anywhere ; then, as in a bear-garden : then, two or three fiddlers ; now, nine or ten of the best ; then, nothing but rushes upon the ground, and everything else mean ; now, all otherwise...
Page 409 - Ne of noght elles that god made; And noght only fro fer contree That ther no tyding comth to thee, But of thy verray neyghebores, That dwellen almost at thy dores, Thou herest neither that ne this...
Page 161 - Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn. Thou first and chief, sole Sovereign of the Vale! O, struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars...
Page 10 - It is a common practice now-a-days, amongst a sort of shifting companions that run through every art and thrive by none, to leave the trade of Noverint, whereto they were born, and busy themselves with the endeavors of art, that could scarcely Latinize their neck-verse if they should have need; yet English Seneca, read by candle-light, yields many good sentences, as blood is a beggar...
Page 177 - Enter Friar Bacon, drawing the curtains, with a white stick, a book in his hand, and a lamp lighted by him, and the Brazen Head; and Miles, with weapons by him. Bacon. Miles, where are you? Miles. Here, sir. Bacon. How chance you tarry so long?
Page 450 - We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort ; the man who never wrongs his neighbor ; who is prompt to help a friend ; but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
Page 186 - He, as his mistress doth; and she, by chance: Nor want there those who, as the boy doth dance Between the acts, will censure the whole play; Some like, if the wax-lights be new that day; But multitudes there are whose judgment goes Headlong according to the actors