Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should like to ask the University authorities, through your columns, the following questions: Since Thursday was not even a partial holiday in the University, why was the gymnasium closed in the evening, and why was the Office closed during its regular hours...
...funeral from the Norman. So also the poor man was put into a Saxon grave, and the noble into a Norman tomb. All the parts of armor, which was worn only by the nobel, have French names, while the weapons of the people, sword, bow, and the like continued Saxon. So feather is Saxon, but when it changes to a plume for the lord, or a pen for the learned it becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons of the scholar...
...strange that the islanders should have swung away from their continental neighbors in this matter, but it is strange that they should have adhered to their perverse pronunciation in spite of all the efforts of various intelligent persons to adopt in some manner the continental system. Milton, like a sturdy Puritan, fought vigorously against it, and Walter Scott opposed it, though his more gentle disposition made him finally yield to the custom of Court and College...
...Saxon does not seem to have ever been very good at acquiring languages. The number of words derived from the Celtic which are preserved in English is perhaps not greater than those which (like hominy, quahaug, pogie, tauttog, and a few others) our American English has caught from the Indians. Compared with the great mass of our language, the number of words of Norman introduction is also very small. Chaucer shows the tendency of the two dialects of court and country to coalesce and form a new language. The almost contemporary poem of Piers Ploughman, written for popular effect...
...simplicity of prose, and is the same kind of simplicity as that which Goethe's style, in the passage which I have quoted, exhibits; but Menander does not belong to a great poetical moment, he comes too late for it; it is the simple passages in poets like Pindar or Dante which are perfect, being masterpieces of poetical simplicity. One may say the same of the simple passages in Shakespeare; they are perfect; their simplicity being a poetical simplicity. They are the golden, easeful, crowning moments of a manner which is always pitched in another key from that of prose...