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...er argu- ment, whereof their rhymes intreat. They speak the ancient French language, altered a little.”[FN#6] ‘The harp and chairschoes are now only h... ...by Ruskin above, also illustrates what is comparatively rare in figurative language— taking the immaterial to exemplify the material. The latter is co... ...ce as enable them to penetrate into coun- tries unconnected by manners and language, and having no apparent intercourse to afford the means of transmi... ... words have been adapted to it by Burns. A similar story is recounted of a Welsh bard, who composed and played on his death-bed the air called Dafyddy...

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...r should be matched with the most villainous knight of the world. All this language heard King Mark, what Sir Palomides said by him; wherefore 27 Le ... ...ss: and so Sir Tristram was in manner wroth with Sir Dinadan. But all this language Sir Dinadan said be- cause he would anger Sir Tristram, for to cau... ...e upon the morn. And for this intent Sir Dinadan said all this railing and language against Sir Tristram. Truly, said Sir Palomides, as for Sir Launce... ... knights, for she will have no knight but you. And when he understood that language he was abashed. Not for then she saluted him, and he her; and then... ...d Sir Bors, I pray you say ye not so, for wit you well I may not hear such language of him. Why Sir Bors, said she, should I not call him traitor when... ...d. Ye shall see me disguised, said Sir Gareth; and therewithal he espied a Welsh knight where he was to repose him, and he was sore hurt afore by Sir ... ...im of his knighthood to lend him his shield for his. I will well, said the Welsh knight. 365 Le Morte Darthur – V ol. Two And when Sir Gareth had his...

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...t colour as she has; just as if she were painted!— Bessie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper.” “So could I—with a roast onion. Come, we’ll go do... ...has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her language is singularly agreeable to me, and the information she communicate... ...xposed to general view on a pedestal of infamy. What my sensations were no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and co... ...ay, I told her all the story of my sad childhood. Exhausted by emotion, my language was more subdued than it generally was when it de- veloped that sa... ... of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager... ...t of meaning, of movement, of radiance. Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell. Has a girl of fourteen a h... ...stion would rise for my relief. Miss Gryce snored at last; she was a heavy Welshwoman, and till now her habitual nasal strains had never been regarded...

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...heek and eye, but with his usual soft, modulated intona- tion and polished language, the distinctness and delibera- tion taking off all air of rattle,... ...f him, the Marys would be disappointed to see noth- ing but a little fiery Welshman. 37 Yo n g e CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER ... ...him Spanish; and his insight into grammar and keen delight in the majestic language and rich literature infected her, while he was amused by her posit... ...er asked you to work in my cause. I beg your pardon, Jem, don’t fly into a Welsh explosion. No one ever meant more kindly and gen- erously—’ He checke... ...age, he was more likely to adapt himself to circumstances, and learn a new language, than an older man, more used to routine. The vision of the land f... ...’ cried the friendly dragon Martha, descending on them. ‘Do you apply that language to me, ma’am?’ ‘That I do! and richly you deserve it, too, sir! Se... ...istle, conveyed by the shoe-boy on the morning of departure, breathing the language of despair, and yet announcing that she had better think twice of ... ...tock.’ ‘The better for your future peace. I honour her. If she had let the Welsh dragon show his teeth in style, he would only have had to make unplea...

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... be spared from paying them, be familiar all their lives with the degrading language and postures of adulation that they might walk in pride and thin... ...try and the time, in the way of high animal spirits, innocent indecencies of language, and happy hearted indifference to morals. It was fight or look ... ... so, Sandy?” “Whethersoever it be that my mind miscarrieth, bewraying simple language in such sort that the words do seem to come A Connecticut Yankee... ... in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 106 * Footnote: The story is borrowed, language and all, from the Morte d’Arthur. —M.T. endlong and overthwart ... ... the fifteenth they disintegrated, and I got a broom and swept them up. This language is figurative. Those islanders — well, they are slow pay at firs... ...ter that name and die?” “Utter it? Why certainly. I would utter it if it was Welsh.” “Ye are even a dead man, then; and I go to tell Arthur.” “That’s ...

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...d considered one of the ‘ealthiest outlets. Miss Summerson! In the mildest language, I adore you. Would you be so kind as to allow me (as I may say) t... ...ng to her post, she is almost an Englishwoman in her acquaintance with the language; consequently, she is in no want of words to shower upon Rosa for ... ...if it were only to pre vent their detestable English from contaminating a language spoken in the presence of the sun—as to those fellows, who meanly ... ...ee the postmen deliver letters, and not to have the least idea of all that language—to be, to every scrap of it, stone blind and dumb! It must be very... ... being considered to bore mankind by her vocal performances in the Spanish language, she retired to Bath, 388 Bleak House – Vol. One where she lives ... ... senti ments they expressed. Though I never knew what they were (being in Welsh), further than that they were highly eulogis tic of the lineage of M... ...w I suspected that she was very cunning, next moment I believed her honest Welsh heart to be perfectly innocent and simple. And after all, what did it...

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...r to do, confine themselves within the simplicity of truth, but employ the language of falsehood, not only for profit, but for compli- ment, and somet... ...hastily swallowed, and in small quantity. ‘Nay,’ said Joshua, ‘use not the language of compliment with those who renounce it. Had this poor courtesy b... ...rases which the civility of the time had devised, as an admissible mode of language betwixt the two parties. Thus he spoke sometimes of the Chevalier,... ...ter with the auld bitch next?’ [Tradition ascribes this whimsical style of language to the ingenious and philosophical Lord Kaimes.] said an acute met... ...following manner; having at length, and after making several copies, found language to qualify the sense of resentment which burned in the first, draf... ...ise five hundred men with my whistle.’ ‘Five hundred men!’ said one of the Welsh squires; ‘Cot bless us! and pray you, what cood could five hundred me...

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... houses, with his hands in his pockets; ‘he has an ex traordinary flow of language. Beautiful, really.’ ‘With Miss Sally,’ Quilp went on, ‘and the be... ...t, he looked at him in open mouthed astonish ment: wondering what kind of language he would ad dress to him, if he talked in that free and easy way ... ...just so—and the gentleman, instead of replying, ‘Sir, did you address that language to me?’ only said, ‘Pot o’ beer, sir? Yes, sir, ’ and went off and... ...Kit was the best tempered fellow in the world, but considering this strong language, and being somewhat excited by the circumstances in which he was p... ...e fellow, raising his voice—‘Damme, what do you mean by such ungentlemanly language as plunder, eh?’ The speaker laid himself down again at full lengt... ...ong the trees; the stream that rippled by the distant water mill; the blue Welsh mountains far away. It was for such a spot the child had wearied in t...

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...lding excited converse together. Sir Austin listened, but he listened to a language of which he possessed not the key. Their talk was of fire, and of ... ...alked about the room, and considering he scarce knew what. There are ideas language is too gross for, and shape too arbitrary, which come to us and ha... ...is not without meaning that I am introduced to it by a yeoman’s niece. The language of the two social ex- tremes is similar. I find it to consist in a... ... that plucked them. They did not come down to us, and smile, and speak our language, and read our thoughts, and know when to fly, when to follow! how ... ...to them too frequently before. He was as a man with mighty tidings, and no language: intensely communi- cative, but inarticulate. Good round oaths had... ...is father was not what his father had expected and had crooned over in the Welsh moun- tains. Richard shook his hand respectfully, and inquired af- 3...

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...rficially, as was necessary, the sayings of other men; much less was I able in my own strength, but like a barbarian, have I murdered and defiled the language of others....

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... in my own strength, but like a barbarian, have I murdered and defiled the language of oth- ers. But I bore about with me an inward wound, and I was i... ...2 V .R. Liethan, Bethan, V ethan. 3 St. David’s. 4 Guiher, probably the Welsh district Gower. Cetgueli is Caer Kidwelly, in Carmarthenshire. 15. Ac... ...ength one hundred and thirty- three miles: and it is called in the British language Gwal.* Moreover, he ordered it to be made between the Britons, and... ...aintained for a time a species of independence. * This district, in modern language, extended from the great St. Bernard in Piedmont to Cantavic in Pi... ...ved them as friends, and delivered up to them the island which is in their language called Thanet, and, by the Britons, Ruym. 2 Gratianus Aequantius ... ...” 25 History of the Britons river Darent, the third at the Ford, in their language called Epsford, though in ours Set thirgabail, 2 there Horsa fell... ...s, that the holy sacrament was administered by Rhun, the son of Urien. The Welsh name of Paulinus is Pawl Hen, or Polin Eagob. 1 Llauiguin, means the... ...a (Cadwalla); Nennius, Catgublaun; the Saxon Chronicle, Ceadwalla; and the Welsh writers, Cadwallon and Kalwallawn: and though the identity of the per... ...short time of each other, have been frequently confounded together.—Rees’s Welsh Saints. 36 History of the Britons of Guenedot, 3 in the battle of C...

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...hown to the contrary, there is every reason why all men who speak the same language, think the same literature, and are akin in blood and spirit, and ... ...lly deep-rooted habit. Nothing is automatic with him. He crams and forgets languages with an equal ease, gives up smoking after fifteen years of const... ... since his birth, all that he has been taught to do and trained to do, his language, the circle of ideas he has taken to him- self, the disproportions... ...ation, trained to be observant and keep her temper, and she must speak her language with a good, clear accent. Moreover, behind the mother and readily... ...he body is the substance and the implement; the mind, built and compact of language, is the man. All that has gone be- fore, all that we have discusse... ...on, U.S.A., have sent me a book of Nursery Rhymes, arranged by Mr. Charles Welsh, which is certainly the best thing I have seen in this way. It is wor...

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... 15 George Meredith Old Buccaneer’s that helped the earl to win the great Welsh heiress who made him, even before he took to hoarding and buying,—one... ...covered with an old white flannel cloak, and on her head a tall hat of her Welsh women-folk; and she died of it, leaving a son in her likeness, of who... ...nging away the glass to shivers: ‘There’s to the T urncoat!’ He salted his language in a manner I cannot repeat; no epithet ever stood by itself. When... ...m going to describe to you the young Earl of Fleetwood, son of the strange Welsh lady, the richest nobleman of his time, and how he persued and shunne... ...s heart. He sprang forward, he stopped and threw up his head. It was human language to hear him, Chillon. He lay in the yard, trying to lift his eyes ... ...g a royal palace—and mark- ing out the site—raving about it in the wildest language, po- etical if it had been a little reasonable—and then, after a n... ...itten it, and “ghost” is just the word, the exact word—tell me, are you of Welsh blood? “Dad” is good Welsh—pronounce it hard.’ Woodseer answered: ‘My... ...ung lord had roamed away with. ‘Y ou forget that Russett has gypsy in him: Welsh! it’s about the same,’ said Livia. ‘He can take excellent care of him... ...wilights; and his heart sprang into his brain to picture the novel beauty; language became a flushed Bacchanal in a ring of dancing similes. Lying bes...

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...ed sneeringly, is a world short of our word ‘religious.’ This condition of language we need not wonder at: the language of life must naturally receive... ... so absolutely new as to be untranslat- able* into either of the classical languages; and, [Greek text], A system of mysteries; as, for instance, the ... ...contrary, people are ready to say, ‘Why, so far from it, the very earliest language in which the Gospels appeared, excepting only St. Matthew’s, was t... ...g time, colonizing Syria under princes of Grecian blood,—had not the Greek language (as a lingua Hellenistica) become steeped in Hebrew ideas,—no door... ...tianity and clearing the road before it; first, the diffusion of the Greek language through the whole civilized world [Greek text] some time before Ch... ...cinian, which, in a petty diocese that he never visited, and amongst South Welshmen, that are all incorrigible Methodists, mattered little, but would ... ...ich had previously been locked up in a language destined, as surely as the Welsh language or the Gaelic, to eternal obscurity amongst men, I go on to ...

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...ht Against the irregular and wild Glendower, Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken, A thousand of his people butchered; Upon whose dead corpse ... ...pse there was such misuse, Such beastly shameless transformation, By those Welshwomen done as may not be Without much shame retold or spoken of. KING ... ...nt in one quarter of an hour, that I can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost much honor, that ... ... Lucifer cuckold and swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook—what a plague call you him? POINS: O, Glendower. FALSTAFF: Ow... ...e pace in deep experiments. HOTSPUR: I think there’s no man speaks better Welsh. I’ll to dinner. MORTIMER: Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him ma... ... Why, that will I. HOTSPUR: Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh. GLENDOWER: I can speak English, lord, as well as you; For I was tra... ...g disputation: But I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn’d, Sun...

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...culars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might pos sibly in time come... ... of Think ing, by Messrs. du Port Royal. While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar (I think it was Greenwood’s), at ... ..., with cop per cuts, a dress better than I had ever seen it wear in its own language. I have since found that it has been trans lated into most of t... ... language. I have since found that it has been trans lated into most of the languages of Europe, and suppose it has been more generally read than any... ... the amusing one’s self with poetry now and then, so far as to improve one’s language, but no farther. On this it was propos’d that we should each of ... ...clos’d again with Keimer. I found in his house these hands: Hugh Meredith, a Welsh Pensilvanian, thirty years of age, bred to country work; honest, se... ...elf, at thirty years of age, an apprentice to learn a new trade. Many of our Welsh people are going to settle in North The Autobiography of Benjamin F...

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...lled now? England itself, and the people English. They spoke much the same language as we do, only more as untaught country people, and they had not s... ...ains. There they have gone on living ever since, and talking their own old language. The English called them Welsh, a name that meant strangers, and w... ...ng ever since, and talking their own old language. The English called them Welsh, a name that meant strangers, and we call them Welsh still, and their... ...lovely ladies came in a boat, and carried him away to a secret island. The Welsh kept on saying, for years and years, that one day king Arthur would w... ...nglish grew prosperous and happy, when nobody was allowed to rob them. The Welsh were, however, terrible robbers. You remember that they are the remai... ...ard had, in the meantime, con- quered most of the country; and he told the Welsh chiefs that, if they would come and meet him at Caernarvon Castle, he... ...a prince who had been born in their country—had never spoken a word of any language but theirs. They all came, and the king came down to them with his... ...ately been born in Caernarvon Castle, and, of course, had never spoken any language at all. The Welsh were obliged to accept him; and he had a Welsh n... ...ernarvon Castle, and, of course, had never spoken any language at all. The Welsh were obliged to accept him; and he had a Welsh nurse, that the first ...

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...name was corrupted into that of Caerlunda, and again in time, by change of language, into Londres. Lud, when he died, was buried in this town, near th... ...en he died, was buried in this town, near that gate which is yet called in Welsh, Por Lud—in Saxon, Ludesgate. The famous river Thames owes part of it... ...eration, till thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away ... ...nacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he restored many f... ...ceive it. The Castle or Tower of London, called Bringwin, and Tourgwin, in Welsh, from its whiteness, is encompassed by a *This probably alluded to th... ...nch, and Italian; for, besides being well skilled in Greek, Latin, and the languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch. ... ...r of learned men are supported, and the studies of all polite sciences and languages flourish. I think proper to mention some few things about the fou...

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...ervation of his own history, that clear- ness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent per- sons, the world woul... ... Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by Samuel Johnson.’ But the only pupils that were put under his ... ...ilosophy, that it is one of the most interesting narratives in the English language. Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he m... ..., when Johnson’s arduous and important work, his Dictionary of the Egnlish Language, was announced to the world, by the publica- tion of its Plan or P... ...hop, he heard his brother suggest to him, that a Dictionary of the English Language would be a work that would be well received by the publick; that J... ...tantly exerting itself. Mrs. Anna Williams, daughter of a very inge- nious Welsh physician, and a woman of more than ordinary talents and literature, ... ...riod of time. Mr. Thrale had married Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, of good Welsh extraction, a lady of lively talents, improved by education. That Joh...

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...th serving. And in the first place the whole Empire must use the En- glish language. I do not mean that any language must be stamped out, that a thous... ...uage. I do not mean that any language must be stamped out, that a thousand languages may not flourish by board and cradle and in folk-songs and villag... ...educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language should exist, visibly and certainly, as the media by which his spi... ...y, no racial, no religious unity. Its only conceivable unity is a unity of language and purpose and outlook. If it is not held together by thought and... ...to be solved, if it is solved at all, by untried means. And in the English language as a vehicle of thought and civilisation alone is that means to be... ... in danger, our Legislature is busy over the trivial little affairs of the Welsh Established Church, whose endowment probably is not equal to the fort... ...of Com- mons to note which of the barristers is making most head- way over Welsh Disestablishment, or shall we take him to the _Titanic_ inquiry to he...

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...menos prosephe,” read on the student, his voice choked with emotion. “What language!” he said; “how rich, how noble, how sonorous! prosephe podas—” Th... ...d he, with high-bred courtesy: “’twas not French I read, ’twas the Godlike language of the blind old bard. In what can I be serviceable to ye, lady?” ... ...ointed to sit with the Prisoner, was affected by his noble and appropriate language, and also burst into tears. “Y ou weep, my Snoggin,” the Boy said;... ...the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloquy in his own language, was dis- missed by Rafael. 26 Thackeray “The queen must come bac... ...hup heagerly.” “6TH JULY.—Dined to-day at the London Tavin with one of the Welsh bords of Direction I’m hon. The Cwrwmwrw & Plmwyddlywm, with tunnils ... ... Llwydd in the vice; W elsh mutton for dinner; W elsh iron knives & forks; Welsh rabbit after dinner; and a Welsh harper, be hanged to him: he went st... ...abits most simple): of this, and about a quarter of an ounce of high-dried Welsh, which he always took, he made me a present, saying, in front of the ... ...osing body, they certainly floored it but they became at once like so much Welsh-rabbit, and did no execution beyond the man whom they struck down. “H... ... of elegant tripe and onions? or a slice of boar’s-head and truffles? or a Welsh rabbit a la cave au 230 Thackeray cidre? or a beefsteak and shallot?...

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...e been, in his own fashion, as out spoken as Tiraqueau. If such freedom of language could be permitted in a grave treatise of law, similar liberties w... ...reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to ... ... spoke as those of his time used to speak; when amusing them he used their language to make himself understood, and to slip in his asides, which witho... ...revolt from him, and turn away repulsed at once by the archaic form of the language and by the out- spokenness of the words. But if he be read aloud t... ...th and mastery of the popular tongue as well as of the written and learned language. As a foreigner, Cotgrave is a little behind in his information. H... ...ons marinated. Stock-doves, and wood-culvers. Jellies. Pullets, with eggs. Welsh barrapyclids. Pigs, with wine sauce. Chickens. Macaroons. Blackbirds,... ...ever to pare off the least chip of them, so that they grow as crooked as a Welsh hook or a hedging-bill. We saw a swingeing bunch of grapes that are g...

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..., and so generally distrib- uted, that its name traced to its root in many languages sig- nifies fruit in general. maelon (Melon), in Greek, means an ... ...(or the destruction of the Gods). I learn from Loudon** that “the ancient Welsh bards were rewarded for excelling in song by the token of the apple- ... ...t the christening of the wild apples? It would exhaust the Latin and Greek languages, if they were used, and make the lingua vernacula flag. We should...

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...by its miserable splendor to scorch my brain? Wherefore shrink from giving language, simple vocal utterance, to that burden of anguish which by so lon... ...e 18 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers she quitted her palmistry for the language of astrology;] ‘there is a frightful danger at hand, both for your... ...est and most vital interests, the other telling her, through the liveliest language of animal sensibility, and through the very pulses of her blood, t... ...nation of our looks communicated contagiously, by the most unerring of all languages, from each to the other what thoughts were uppermost in our panic... ... the victims, and the proportion of the punishment awarded. Others, in the language of a great poet, ‘Had pitied her, and not her grief;’ they had eit... ... respect to the aspen tree, which Mrs. Hemans very naturally mistook for a Welsh legend, having first heard it in Denbighshire, the popular faith is u...

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... they lived much abroad, where the poor captain, who could never learn any language but his own, sat in the corner mumchance; and even his son, carrie... ...ar greater value, the delightful qualities of Fleeming Jenkin. The Kentish-Welsh family, facile, ex- travagant, generous to a fault and far from brill... ...h the very first, and had the full benefit of every possible groan and bad language.’ But the police cleared a lane through the crowd, the pupils were... ...cupations of the native people, studying everywhere their dances and their language, and conforming, always with plea- sure, to their rustic etiquette... ...erance of that toy. Thence came his inquiries into the roots of articulate language and the foundations of literary art; his papers on vowel sounds, h... ... existed in his class-room. I do not remember that he ever addressed me in language; at the least sign of unrest, his eye would fall on me and I was q...

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...ch I have supplied in its due place. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so a... ...ved, it contained nothing but a savagely derisive attack on a professor of language and litera- ture whose chair Sweet regarded as proper to a pho- ne... ...ound, and capable of making sense with 5 Shaw the context, existed in any language spoken on earth. That less expert mortals should require fuller in... ...point of his “Current Shorthand” is that it can express every sound in the language per- fectly, vowels as well as consonants, and that your hand has ... ...rovision of a full, accurate, legible script for our noble but ill-dressed language; but he was led past that by his contempt for the popular Pitman s... ...us matter, Governor. HIGGINS [to Pickering] Brought up in Hounslow. Mother Welsh, I should think. [Doolittle opens his mouth, amazed. Higgins continue... ...ng to tell you: I’m waiting to tell you.” Sentimental rhetoric! That’s the Welsh strain in him. It also accounts for his mendacity and dishonesty. PIC...

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...s, philosophs, priests, Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since, Language shapers on other shores, Nations once powerful, now reduced, wit... ...eeping, love looks, love perturbations and risings, The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud, Food, drink, pulse, digestion, swea... ...or koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality! You dwarf’d Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp! Y... ...phies, manifold, different, distant, Rounded by thee in one—one common orbic language, One common indivisible destiny for All. And by the spells which... ...rest, commonest, readiest, it is ever provoked by them. You may read in many languages, yet read nothing about it, You may read the President’s messag... ...ntique and mediaeval fill me, I see and hear old harpers with their harps at Welsh festivals, I hear the minnesingers singing their lays of love, I he... ... he forgets he is well off, The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home, T...

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... had possibly provoked this alien- ation in a scornfully proud spirit. The language of metaphor was to Mr. Adister fool’s froth. He conceded the use o... ...o Mr. Adister fool’s froth. He conceded the use of it to the Irish and the Welsh as a right that stamped them for what they were by adopting it; and t... ...n knave!—Known for a knave!—A young gentlewoman?—a 20 Celt and Saxon wild Welsh …!’ Caroline put her horse to a canter, and the exclamations ended, l... ...himself. 29 George Meredith CHAPTER VI A CONSULTATION: WITH OPINIONS UPON WELSHWOMEN AND THE CAMBRIAN RACE LATER IN THE DAY she heard that he was out... ...Mr. Adister had no ground of opposition but his own in- temperateness. The Welsh grandmother’s legacy of her es- tates to his girl, overlooking her br... ...should continue to kick the beam. Behold now the consequence of the wilful Welshwoman’s insanest of legacies! The estates were left to Adiante Adister... ...rstood why; yet I respect the remains of their lit- erature, I study their language, I attend their gatherings and subscribe the expenses; I consume W...

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...These four carry their world, and are not carried by it; and if it, in the language so dear to Fielding himself, were to crash and shat- ter, the inqu... ...of writing, which I do not remember to have seen hitherto attempted in our language. The EPIC, as well as the DRAMA, is divided into tragedy and comed... ...pecies of writing, which I have affirmed to be hitherto unattempted in our language; I shall leave to my good-natured reader to apply my piece to my o... ...ing written in obsolete, and as they are generally thought, unintelligible languages, such as Plutarch, Nepos, and others which I heard of in my youth... ... such as Plutarch, Nepos, and others which I heard of in my youth; our own language affords many of excellent use and instruc- tion, finely calculated... ...on mea renidet in domo lacunar.” The beau answered, “He did not understand Welsh;” at which the parson stared and made no reply. Mr Didapper, or beau ...

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...rs earlier, most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had bee... ...n” of Islamic lands. Specifically singling out U.S. forces for attack, the language resembled that which would appear in Bin Ladin’s public fatwa in A... ...r exposure. 87 On February 23, 1998, Bin Ladin issued his public fatwa.The language had been in negotiation for some time, as part of the merger under... ...Afghanistan.A week later, it appeared in Al Quds al Arabi, the same Arabic-language newspaper in London that had first published Bin Ladin’s February ... ...gents. It lacked sufficient translators proficient in Arabic and other key languages, resulting in a significant backlog of untranslated intercepts. 2... ... attendant assignments and seating included Chief Flight Attendant Deborah Welsh (first class, seat J1 at takeoff); Sandra Bradshaw (coach, seat J5);W...

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..., and it did wonders as Peroo leaped from gunnel to gun- nel, shouting the language of the sea. Findlayson was more troubled for the stone-boats than ... ... brother. There’s no doubt thinkin’ broadens the horizons o’ the mind. His language is quite lofty.” “Hesh, sis,” Nip answered. “He hain’t widened not... ...randfather of our John, went into his country, lived with him, learned his language, shot the deer that stole his poor crops, and won his confidence, ... ...ccinator, with lancets, lymph, and an officially regis- tered calf. In the language of State, they had “manifested a strong objection to all prophylac... ...s of their apprenticeship they had come by that road from Bombay. Then the languages in which the names of the sta- tions were written changed, and th... ...f the track, don’t they?” “Don’t they?” roared Evans, who was a red-headed Welsh- man. “You talk as if I was ditched by a hog every fool-day o’ the we...

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...o re- turn the compliment, which being done, he seemed highly pleased. The language of these people, ac- cording to our notions, scarcely deserves to ... ... all know how difficult it is to distinguish apart the sounds in a foreign language. Which of us, for instance, could follow an American Indian throug... ...metimes sullen expression, and very quick in learning anything, especially languages. This she showed in picking up some Portuguese and Span- ish, whe... ... to invite him to stay with them But Jemmy understood very little of their language, and was, moreover, thoroughly 231 Charles Darwin ashamed of his ... ...o Fuegia. We had already perceived that Jemmy had almost forgotten his own language. I should think there was scarcely another human be- ing with so s... ...in, is much more turbid than when it proceeds from the snow melting in the Welsh mountains. D’Orbigny (tom. i. p. 184), in explaining the cause of the... ...up, with coarse grass; it was not very dissimilar from that on some of the Welsh hills, and this so close above the orchard of tropical plants on the ... ...ges that the indigenous Flora is now pre- dominant. The English, or rather Welsh character of the scen- ery, is kept up by the numerous cottages and s... ... tral elevated region, and the whole much resembles the worse parts of the Welsh mountains. But scanty as the pasture appears, about six hundred sheep...

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...stance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the English – of which I will go b... ... and a half ago the Highlander wore a different costume, spoke a different language, worshipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed... ...trick. They had been in Ireland, stationed among men of their own race and language, where they were well liked and treated with affec- tion; but it w... ...ga- tive from nearer home. Is it common education, common morals, a common language or a common faith, that join men into nations? There were practica... ...are considering. The fact remains: in spite of the difference of blood and language, the Lowlander feels himself the sentimental coun- tryman of the H... ...er young, while Clarissa lies upon the shelves unread. A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty- five years old and could neither read nor wri... ...y and enjoyed at pleasure. Down he sat that day, painfully learned to read Welsh, and returned to borrow the book. It had been lost, nor could he find...

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...and interpret a Port as the art of walking erect. But this is to look upon language too narrowly. On a more intimate acquaintance with the couple, you... ...and, in his 11 George Meredith cups, talked largely and wisely of a great Welsh family, issuing from a line of princes; and it is certain that he kne... ...s, he passed for a disgustingly jealous brute. The ladies, in their pretty language, signalized him as a ‘finick.’ Now, having achieved so capital a m... ...have fixed the young lady long before. By tender moonlight, in captivating language, beneath the umbrageous orange-groves, a Portuguese would have acc... ...weepers, T om. He ‘s clever and accomplished, can speak and write in three languages: I wish I had his abilities. He has good manners: well, T om, you... ...ing to the strength there existing, we learn to comprehend them. But their language is an element of Time, whom primarily we have to know. Evan Harrin... ...ason or other my father never took me there again. I remember our having a Welsh rarebit there for supper, and when the waiter last night men- tioned ...

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...many of your reefs out there, Ethel?” “Harry can talk nothing but sailors’ language,” said Flora, “and I am sure he did not learn that of Mr. Ernescli... ... full moon. And there he shone on them, by his mamma’s side, announcing in language few could understand, where he had been with papa. “He has been a ... ...outgrown that habit of disputing over ev- ery phrase.” “I can’t tell how a language is to be learned without know- ing the reasons of one’s mistakes,”... ...at?” said Mary, opening wide her light blue eyes. “That use of exaggerated language,—”began Miss Winter. “I’ve heard papa say it,” said Ethel, only wa... ... deeply to talk of in good French, and really Ethel has a great talent for languages. How fast she gets on with Italian!” “That she does,” said Margar... ...a dark fir wood, beyond which rose in ex- treme distance the grand mass of Welsh mountain heads, purpled against the evening sky, except where the cro... ...h of an old cedar tree, with Stoneborough Minster in the distance, and the Welsh hills beyond, which Mary thought a remarkable piece of bad taste, sin... ...ntry, away from books, you will forget it. One look at our dear old purple Welsh hills will blow away all the mists!” “I ought not to have spoken in t...

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... need any defence to his wife if he acts in a straightforward way? His own language condemns him. “Wrong to stand out!” Now, will either of you tell m... ...nce into public life by giving a lecture on the gram- marians of the Latin language as exemplified at Eton School. ‘On the present occasion, ’ Mr Smit... ...rse he went to Exeter— again leaving the Framley souls at the mercy of the Welsh Low Churchman. Framley is only four miles from Silverbridge, and at S... ...cannot get into the Petty Bag Office without knowing at least three modern languages; and he must be well up in trigonometry too, in Bible theology, o... ... he must be well up in trigonometry too, in Bible theology, or in one dead language—at his option. And the doctor had four daughters. The two elder we... ...inly a current of antagonistic feeling which, in the ordinary unconsidered language of every day, men and women do call hatred. This raged before the ...

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... MRS TARLETON. Everybody does. I really must go and make the cook do him a Welsh rabbit. He expects one on special occasions. [She goes to the inner d... ...ould be if they ate it. Anyhow, say what you like, provided the moral is a Welsh rabbit for my supper. LORD SUMMERHAYS. British morality in a nutshell... ...is is your rotten bourgeoisie! This!— MRS TARLETON. Dont you dare use such language in company. I wont allow it. TARLETON. All right, Chickabiddy: it’... ...n company. I wont allow it. TARLETON. All right, Chickabiddy: it’s not bad language: it’s only Socialism. MRS TARLETON. Well, I wont have any Socialis...

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... from the housetops, but as she loved only a sister she used the voiceless language of sympathy. “I consider you odd girls,” continued Mrs. Munt, “and... ... might be prosperous, but would certainly not be expressed in the ordinary language of prosperity. If you think this ridiculous, remember that it is n... ...ls you the same as the eye? Helen’s one aim is to translate tunes into the language of painting, and pictures into the lan- guage of music. It’s very ... ... city she noted for the first time the architecture of hurry and heard the language of hurry on the mouths of its inhabitants—clipped words, formless ... ...—a dis- covery of which he was not altogether proud. It was up towards the Welsh border, and so difficult of ac- cess that he had concluded it must be... ...ive the party was ready, and went out of Shrewsbury 205 EM Forster by the Welsh Bridge. Shropshire had not the reticence of Hertfordshire. Though rob... ...e, though it whispered more loudly. There had been a heavy downpour in the Welsh hills. 211 EM Forster CHAPTER XXVI NEXT MORNING a fine mist covered ... ...could not be his wife. She tried to translate his temptation into her own language, and her brain reeled. Men must be different even to want to yield... ...e river flows down into England, day after day the sun re- treats into the Welsh mountains, and the tower chimes, See the Conquering Hero. But the Wil...

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...ion, when presented to her in plain English, required translation into the language of her thoughts. “If you like to call it so,” said Miss Williams, ... ...ome. Are not you glad it is over?” “I was thinking, Rose, what a difficult language plain En- glish is sometimes.” 66 The Clever Woman of the Family ... ...t,’ as you made me call it.” “Did I!” “Y ou said the other word was of two languages. I can’t think why they don’t insert it; but in the meantime I wi... ...all have such a friend in your Erminia. Is that her name?” “Ermine, an old Welsh name, the softest I ever heard. In- deed it is dressing time,” added ... ...and the conse- quence was a formal complaint of her ungrateful and violent language to Mrs. Rawlins on being refused admission to the asylum without a... ...he said to Ermine; “and I do so the more readily that with all his mocking language, there is a genuine candour and hon- esty beneath that would he qu... ...blower’s daughter—isn’t it too bad?” “Her father was a clergyman of a good Welsh family.” “Was he? Then her brother or somebody had something to do wi...

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...ference to bottles of Brown Stout, without which, in the way of condiment, Welsh rabbit is to be eschewed. Having thus concluded a frugal meal, and do... ...lowers. In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than efflorescence of language. W e must be simple, precise, terse. W e must be cool, calm, unimp... ... grosser wrong done the fame of a true poet. In the compass of the English language I can call to mind no poem more pro. foundry—more weirdly _imagina... ... “V erses on the Queen of Bohemia”—that “there are few finer things in our language,” is untenable and absurd. In such lines we can perceive not one o... ...ing been thoroughly studied, much more perceived, by very few poets in the language. While the clas- sic tongues, especially the Greek, possess, by po... ... an entirely differ- ent effect. We could wish the capacities of our noble language in prosody were better understood.” —ED. “Am. Rev.” 2. The bibliog...

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...iding past, An’ every bloomin’ campin’-ground exactly like the last; * Language. Thomas’s first and firmest conviction is that he is a profound O... ...speaker of Hindustani. As a matter of fact, he depends largely on the sign-language. V erses 1889 to 1896 57 While the Big Drum says, With ‘i... ...took what I said in this horrible fashion, “I’ll write to Harendra!” With language unsainted The Captain came back to the Bride … who had fainted. ... ...here’s bricks that I might recommend — an’ clink the fire-bars cruel. No! Welsh — Wangarti at the worst — an’ damn all patent fuel!) Inventions? Ye ...

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...ear than a collateral. It was on Au- gust 12, 1678, that he heard Mr. John Welsh on the Craigdowhill, and ‘took the heavens, earth, and sun in the fir... ...nearly half a sheet she keeps to the point with an excellent discretion in language then suddenly breaks out: ‘It was fully my intention to have left ... ..., and fine scent of all that seems romantic to a boy, his needless pomp of language, his excellent good sense, his unfeigned, unstained, unwea- ried h... ...t, “who was a very obstreperous man.” I could not bring Mr. Watt to put in language his objections to Miller; all I could get was that, he being your ... ...m. I was, however, determined to have out of these unwilling witnesses the language alluded to. I fixed upon Mr. Stewart as chief; he hedged. My curio...

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...of every word that applies to him.’ Always distinct and soft in speech, no language could describe the extent of his distinct- ness and softness, when... ...spectacles, still 170 Dombey & Son working like a sexton in the graves of languages. Here is the table upon which he sat forlorn and strange, the ‘ne... ...hter; and a voice not like hers, not like any voice that speaks our mortal language—says, ‘For I nursed you!’ Edith, without a tear, kneels down to br... ...strument-maker, a little thinner and more careworn than of old, in his old Welsh wig and his old coffee-coloured coat and basket but- tons, with his o...

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...n and read beyond the sea, which be not had in our maternal tongue. But in Welsh be many and also in French, and some in English but nowhere nigh all.... ...uld not suffer Sir Uwaine to go out to them upon no surety nor for no fair language, but she made him speak with them over a tower, but finally these ... ...shalt see knights that shall abate thy boast. Fair damosel, give me goodly language, and then my care is past, for what knights somever they be, I car... ...is shield cloven asunder he was a little ashamed of that stroke and of her language; and then he gave him such a buffet upon the helm that he fell on ... ... handed man and well disposed as any is living. Sir, said Arthur, let this language be still, and by the grace of God he shall be found an he be withi... ...emnity. And this Sir Gareth was a noble knight, and a well-ruled, and fair-languaged. Thus endeth this tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney that wedded Dame L...

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...d.—But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic teaches) are, in strict language, made by those outward Senses of ours, how much more, by the Inwar... ...termination to have dinner does it. And then as to Pamphlets—in figurative language; ‘it is a sheer snowing of pamphlets; like to snow up the Governme... ...ing to see, beset that Paper-Warehouse; demonstrate, in loud ungrammatical language (addressed to the passions too), the insufficiency of sevenpence h... ...ds Lecointre: a picture for Salvator! He asks, in temperate but courageous language: What they, by this their journey to Versailles, do specially want... ...h his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Nep- tune (in the language of poets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of reha... ...doubt it not; though no Moniteur has reported them. They scolded in Celtic Welsh, those Brennuses; neither were they Sansculotte; nay rather breeches ...