| 1840 - 662 pagina’s
...The words of old Camden are still more applicable to it now than when they were originally written. ' Whereas our tongue is mixed, it is no disgrace. '...open her lippes for fear of marring her countenance. 1 The Spanish majesticall, but fulsome, running too much on 1 the o, and terrible like (he divell in... | |
| 1838 - 514 pagina’s
...have not been sufficient to destroy its original force. " Whereas our language," as old Camden says, "is mixed, it is no disgrace. The Italian is pleasant,...water. The French delicate, but even nice as a woman, scarec daring to open her lippes for fear of marring her countenance. TheSpanishmajesticall but fulsome,... | |
| Joseph Bosworth - 1838 - 986 pagina’s
...and literature prevail, there the English language is understood and spoken. * Camden observes : " Whereas our tongue is mixed, it is no disgrace. The Italian is pleasant, but without sinewes, as a still fleeting water. The French delicate, but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to... | |
| Joseph Bosworth - 1838 - 962 pagina’s
...literature prevail, there the English language is understood and spoken. • Camden observes: "Whereai our tongue is mixed, it is no disgrace. The Italian is pleasant, but without sinewes, as a still fleeting water. The French delicate, but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to... | |
| John Petheram - 1840 - 214 pagina’s
...the world. If of the language, " the ground of our own tongue appertaineth to the old Saxon. . . . The Italian is pleasant, but without sinews, as a...but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lips for fear of marring her countenance. The Spanish majestical, but fulsome, running too much on... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 pagina’s
...originally written. " Whereas our tongue is mixed, it in no disgrace. VOL. XXXVHI.—JAN4AHV, 1839, 3 The Italian is pleasant, but without sinews, as a still, fleeting water. Tho French delicate, but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lippes for fear of marring... | |
| 1841 - 532 pagina’s
...names of places, from it. " The ground of our own tongue," he remarks, " appertaineth to the old Saxon. The Italian is pleasant but without sinews, as a still...but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lips for fear of marring her countenance. The Spanish majestical, but fulsome, running too much on... | |
| 1841 - 524 pagina’s
...names of places, from it. " The ground of our own tongue," he remarks, " appertaineth to the old Saxon. The Italian is pleasant but without sinews, as a still...but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lips for fear of marring her countenance. The Spanish majestical, but fulsome, running too, much on... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 pagina’s
...names of places, from it. " The ground of our own tongue," he remarks, " appertaineth to the old Saxon. The Italian is pleasant but without sinews, as a still...but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lips for fear of marring her countenance. The Spanish majestical, but fulsome, running too much on... | |
| 1841 - 524 pagina’s
...names of places, from it. " The ground of our own tongue," he remarks, " appertaineth to the old Saxon. The Italian is pleasant but without sinews, as a still fleeting water. The French delicatej but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lips for fear of marring her countenance.... | |
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