Englische studien: Organ für englische philologie unter mitberücksichtigung des englischen unterrichts auf höheren schulen ..., Volume 11

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Page vi - THE BIBLE WORD-BOOK : A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the Authorised Version of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA, Fellow and Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Page 85 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 447 - Wer hält den Fortgang nützlicher Revolutionen im Reich des Wissens mehr auf als eben diese? Jedes Licht, das durch ein glückliches Genie, in welcher Wissenschaft es sei, angezündet wird, macht ihre Dürftigkeit sichtbar; sie fechten mit Erbitterung, mit Heimtücke, mit Verzweiflung, weil sie bei dem Schulsystem, das sie verteidigen, zugleich für ihr ganzes Dasein fechten. Darum kein unversöhnlicherer Feind, kein neidischerer Amtsgehilfe, kein bereitwilligerer Ketzermacher als der Brotgelehrte.
Page 215 - I cannot speak enough of this content; It stops me here; it is too much of joy: And this, and this, the greatest discords be [Kissing her. That e'er our hearts shall make! lago. [Aside.] O! you are well tuned now, But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, As honest as I am.
Page 472 - Literary Gazette. GRAMMAR and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect. By the Rev. W. BARNES. 8vo. 2s 6d. DIALECT of South Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummas and Meary, revised and Corrected, with his Rhymes, and an enlarged Glossary of Words and Phrases chiefly used by the Rural Population of the Manufacturing Districts of South Lancashire. By SAMUEL BAMFORD.
Page 366 - Man erschrickt», sagte Goethe, «wenn man diese Bilderchen durchsieht ! Da wird man erst gewahr, wie unendlich reich und groß Shakespeare ist ! Da ist doch kein Motiv des Menschenlebens, das er nicht dargestellt und ausgesprochen hätte!
Page 471 - Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect; and Poems. Plates by G. Cruikshank. Rendered intelligible to general readers by a literal interpretation, and the obsolete words explained by quotations from the most early of the English authors. London, 1828.
Page 215 - Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not, To please the palate of my appetite, Nor to comply with heat — the young affects In me defunct — and proper satisfaction, But to be free and bounteous to her mind...
Page 166 - ... the Yorkshire man can scarcely understand each other when they are eager and fall into dialect. The Australians speak all pure English as it is taught in schools. There are no local distinctions among themselves. There is no general tone, like the American, that my ear could detect. I could not tell whether to be pleased or not at this. On the one side it showed how English they yet were ; on the other, it indicated that they were still in the imitative stage.
Page 63 - The noble lord told the deputation that the past crisis was one which required on the part of the British Government much generalship and judgment; and that "a good deal of judicious bottle-holding was obliged to be brought into play.

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