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... active and passive ' words , may induce a more extended examination of words , which , while kindred in meaning , express many different degrees and variations of the meaning . The title " . see - look " is given and ex- plained , but ...
... active and passive ' words , may induce a more extended examination of words , which , while kindred in meaning , express many different degrees and variations of the meaning . The title " . see - look " is given and ex- plained , but ...
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... active and passive , as between ability and ca- pacity ; the principle of intensity may be observed to operate in the difference between the words to see and to look ; others have a positive and negative difference , as between to shun ...
... active and passive , as between ability and ca- pacity ; the principle of intensity may be observed to operate in the difference between the words to see and to look ; others have a positive and negative difference , as between to shun ...
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... ACTIVE and PASSIVE as applied to the philosophy of sy- nonymy , and under which head the words in the second sec- ion of this work are arranged . Many words possess an ac- tive or passive meaning , wholly independent of the grammati cal ...
... ACTIVE and PASSIVE as applied to the philosophy of sy- nonymy , and under which head the words in the second sec- ion of this work are arranged . Many words possess an ac- tive or passive meaning , wholly independent of the grammati cal ...
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... active state . Between many abstract nouns we shall find this principle to operate . This may be illustrated by the respective meanings of the two words ability and capacity . The idea of power is here common to both words , but the ...
... active state . Between many abstract nouns we shall find this principle to operate . This may be illustrated by the respective meanings of the two words ability and capacity . The idea of power is here common to both words , but the ...
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... found , that some may be ranged under the class of generic and specific , others may belong to the active and passive class , a third pair may be distinguished by the principle of intensity , others again 121 PRACTICAL EXERCISES.
... found , that some may be ranged under the class of generic and specific , others may belong to the active and passive class , a third pair may be distinguished by the principle of intensity , others again 121 PRACTICAL EXERCISES.
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action active ancient appear beauty Brougham Castle cause character Cleop common Comus Coriolanus Cymbeline death difference distinction doth duty earth endeavour English English language evil Excursion Exercise exists expression fault fear feeling former frequently friends give Greek habit Hamlet happy hath heart heaven Henry IV Henry VIII hope human idea intensive Julius Cæsar King John King Lear knowledge labour language Laodamia latter Liberty live look Macb Macbeth meaning MILTON mind moral nature never night o'er object Othello ourselves pain passions passive peace perceive persons pleasure possess praise principle reason Rich Richard III Roman Romeo and Juliet Rylstone sense signifies Sonnets soul speak species spirit strength style synonymous temper Tempest thee things thou thought tion truth verbs virtue voice whole Winter's Tale words WORDSWORTH writing
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Sida 52 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour...
Sida 205 - Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Sida 245 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Sida 87 - Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven.
Sida 68 - By that sin fell the angels; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not...
Sida 47 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Sida 71 - As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Sida 192 - The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light — Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree ; Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.
Sida 333 - Left them ungifted with a power to yield Music of finer tone ; a harmony, So do I call it, though it be the hand Of silence, though there be no voice : the clouds, The mist, the shadows, light of golden suns, Motions of moonlight, all come thither, — touch, And have an answer, — thither come, and shape A language not unwelcome to sick hearts And idle spirits : there the Sun himself, At the calm close of Summer's longest day...
Sida 117 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...