A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Rootwords ...: By a Literary AssociationD. Appleton, 1855 - 159 pàgines |
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accent ACTIONS ANGLO-SAXON ROOT-WORDS animal bird body bread giver bright BRYANT child cloth color color of night cover dawn dear place DIPHTHONGS earth English language fall farmer father feel fire fish fisher flax flowers frame fruit give grain grass hand Hand-Book hear heart heaven HENRY REED hold horse HOUSEHOLD HUNDRED hunter insect instru INSTRUCTION instrument iron kind land learned letters lifted light lips LONGFELLOW metal milk MILLWRIGHT mind move N. P. WILLIS names of actions night old Saxon organ of speech outhouses plant plough pole star QUALITIES round Saxons sense shape sheep ship shoot shrub skin sleep soft soul sound spell spoken word spring stone stone fruit stretch strike strong STUDY sweet syllables taste teacher thread thrust TOOLS tree Tuisco vessel voice warm weaving wheel wild wings wood Words that mark write written word
Passatges populars
Pàgina 77 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Pàgina 49 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Pàgina 60 - Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low.
Pàgina 126 - The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Pàgina 48 - Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.
Pàgina 88 - And God blessed them, saying, ' Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.' 23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Pàgina 92 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Pàgina 109 - I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name — the year — the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast : A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.
Pàgina 47 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Pàgina 41 - Oh ! green is the turf where my brothers play, Through the long bright hours of the summer day ; They find the red cup-moss where they climb, And they chase the bee o'er the scented thyme, And the rocks where the heath-flower blooms they knowLady, kind lady ! oh, let me go...