The Classical Journal, Volume 20A. J. Valpay., 1819 - Classical philology |
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... language , I speak with hesitation ; but it appears to me to retain the great principle which we have seen to prevail in the other lan- guages , viz . the imperative is the simple and primitive form , from which the other parts of the ...
... language , I speak with hesitation ; but it appears to me to retain the great principle which we have seen to prevail in the other lan- guages , viz . the imperative is the simple and primitive form , from which the other parts of the ...
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... languages that once prevailed , or do still exist , in the south and south - west of Europe . It seems to be generally allowed that the Greek language is principally derived from the Hebrew , and Scythian or Gothic tongues . In its ...
... languages that once prevailed , or do still exist , in the south and south - west of Europe . It seems to be generally allowed that the Greek language is principally derived from the Hebrew , and Scythian or Gothic tongues . In its ...
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... language , in expressing an ineffectual regret for the past . The idea of a wish always implies something future but we may very well conceive how a thing ought to have been , although we have no idea of changing it , or know that it is ...
... language , in expressing an ineffectual regret for the past . The idea of a wish always implies something future but we may very well conceive how a thing ought to have been , although we have no idea of changing it , or know that it is ...
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... language exceeds , I believe , all others , in the various shades of entreaty , or command . While the optative sim ... languages which we have already considered . It is more frequently used , indeed , as the name of an action , or ...
... language exceeds , I believe , all others , in the various shades of entreaty , or command . While the optative sim ... languages which we have already considered . It is more frequently used , indeed , as the name of an action , or ...
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... language ; resembling more , in its inflections and phraseology , some modern languages . I conceive this to be a more simple way of accounting for this remark- able variety of expression than saying that one tense is used for another ...
... language ; resembling more , in its inflections and phraseology , some modern languages . I conceive this to be a more simple way of accounting for this remark- able variety of expression than saying that one tense is used for another ...
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Page 347 - her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and
Page 103 - CORIOLANUS. Act 5. Sc. 3. -Thou know'st, great Son, The end of war's uncertain; but this certain, That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit Which thou shall thereby reap, is such a name, Whose
Page 16 - The wounded hind thou track'st not now, Pursues! not maid through greenwood bough, Nor pliest thou now thy flying pace With rivals in the mountain race : But danger, death, and warrior deed, Are in
Page 353 - A LETTER TO THE RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF OD, CONTAINING Some Animadversions upon a Character given of the late DR. BENTLEY, IN A LETTER, from a late Professor in the University of Oxford, to the Right Rev. Author of the Divine Legation of - - - MOSES demonstrated.
Page 103 - To the ensuing age, abhorr'd." Speak to me, Son: Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour, To imitate the graces of the gods ; To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air, That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak ( And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt Think'st thou it honorable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs ?—Daughter, speak you
Page 371 - The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Page 383 - Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living and in his wrath;
Page 104 - request's unjust, And spurn me back. But, if it be not so, Thou art not honest; and the gods will plague thee, That thou
Page 103 - That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak ( And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt Think'st thou it honorable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs ?—Daughter, speak you : Perhaps, thy childishness will move him more He cares not for your weeping.—Speak thou, boy; Than can our reasons.—There is no man in the world
Page 17 - So manifold, all pleasing in their kind. All healthful, are th' employs of rural life, Reiterated as the wheel of time Runs round; still ending, and beginning still.