Englische philologie

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G. Henninger, 1881 - English language - 468 pages

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Page 86 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 370 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 200 - MAUNDER'S TREASURY of KNOWLEDGE and LIBRARY of Reference ; comprising an English Dictionary and Grammar, Universal Gazetteer, Classical Dictionary, Chronology, Law Dictionary, a synopsis of the Peerage useful Tables, &c.
Page 132 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 203 - The CABINET LAWYER ; a Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional : intended for Practical Use and General Information. Twenty-fifth Edition. Fcp. 8vo. price 9s. BLACKSTONE ECONOMISED, a Compendium of the Laws of England...
Page 374 - It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished, that the author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings. But, since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envy his friends the office of their care and pain, to have collected and published them...
Page 212 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Page 369 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Page 245 - the pronunciation of those 'who minister in public, two ' other words occur to me ' which are very commonly 'mangled by our clergy. One ' of these is ' covetous ', and its ' substantive ' covetousness '. 'I hope some who read these THE DEAN'S ENGLISH.
Page 276 - But he ne lefte nat, for reyn ne thonder, In siknesse nor in meschief to visite The ferreste in his parisshe, muche and lite, Upon his feet, and in his hand a staf.

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