A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, 第 2 篇

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C. Winter, 1914 - 486 頁
 

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第 133 頁 - True love in this differs from gold and • clay, That to divide is not to take away.
第 402 頁 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
第 265 頁 - I do not trust to Mr. Francis's promises of candour, convinced that he is incapable of it. I judge of his public conduct by his private, which I have found to be void of truth and honour.
第 259 頁 - I say to myself, in the first place, "Of the innumerable effects, or impressions, of which the heart, the intellect, or (more generally) the soul is susceptible, what one shall I, on the present occasion, select?
第 258 頁 - Tis, finally, the Man, who, lifted high, Conspicuous object in a Nation's eye, Or left unthought-of in obscurity, Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not, Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won...
第 418 頁 - ... had any, and though she terminated, as human beings generally do, in a pair of feet, she was so short that she stood at a common-sized chair as at a table, resting a bag she carried on the seat.
第 418 頁 - Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre, And ther-to hadde he riden, no man ferre, As wel in Cristendom as in hethenesse, And evere honoured for his worthynesse. 50 At Alisaundre he was whan it was wonne. Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne Aboven alle nacions in Pruce.
第 420 頁 - This turn makes him at once both disinterested and agreeable; as few of his thoughts are drawn from business, they are most of them fit for conversation. His taste of books is a little too just for the age he lives in; he has read all,
第 127 頁 - A fact is not called a fact, but a piece of gossip, if it does not fall into one of your scholastic categories. An inquiry must be in some acknowledged direction, with a name to go by; or else you are not inquiring at all, only lounging; and the workhouse is too good for you. It is supposed that all knowledge is at the bottom of a well or the far end...
第 129 頁 - March 22, 1818. MY DEAR FRIEND, Why did you not wake me that night before we left England, you and Marianne ? I take this as rather an unkind piece of kindness in you; but which, in consideration of the six hundred miles between us, I forgive. We have journeyed towards the spring that has been hastening to meet us from the south ; and though our weather was at first abominable, we have now warm sunny days, and soft winds, and a sky of deep azure, the most serene...