A Dictionary of Lowland ScotchPriv. print. at the Ballantyne Press, 1888 - Всего страниц: 398 |
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Стр. ix
... live , is , at the best , but a blind and groping science . It has made but little real progress since the invention of printing , having been anticipated mainly by shallow sciolists , who based etymology upon fanciful guesses and vague ...
... live , is , at the best , but a blind and groping science . It has made but little real progress since the invention of printing , having been anticipated mainly by shallow sciolists , who based etymology upon fanciful guesses and vague ...
Стр. xxiii
... live much in London , begin to grow ashamed of speaking the language of their ancestors , though the sound of the well - beloved accents from the mouths of others is not unwelcome or unmusical to their ears , but even the middle- class ...
... live much in London , begin to grow ashamed of speaking the language of their ancestors , though the sound of the well - beloved accents from the mouths of others is not unwelcome or unmusical to their ears , but even the middle- class ...
Стр. xxviii
... lives for it on the bloody moor of Culloden , or on the cruel block of Tower Hill , or were pining in foreign lands in penury and exile , that the popular bards were so far inspired as to be able to strike the keynote of true poetry ...
... lives for it on the bloody moor of Culloden , or on the cruel block of Tower Hill , or were pining in foreign lands in penury and exile , that the popular bards were so far inspired as to be able to strike the keynote of true poetry ...
Стр. xxxi
... live the wonted fires ; " for modern English in the latter half of the nineteenth century has not disdained to borrow from the ancient Scotch many of the strong simple words that the fashionable English writers of the eighteenth century ...
... live the wonted fires ; " for modern English in the latter half of the nineteenth century has not disdained to borrow from the ancient Scotch many of the strong simple words that the fashionable English writers of the eighteenth century ...
Стр. xxxii
... live in the affection of posterity ; and if some of their words have already become obsolete , their wit and humour , their earnestness and their eloquence , and the whole spirit of their teachings , will survive . To aid English ...
... live in the affection of posterity ; and if some of their words have already become obsolete , their wit and humour , their earnestness and their eloquence , and the whole spirit of their teachings , will survive . To aid English ...
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according to Jamieson ALLAN RAMSAY'S Scots Ambrosianæ applied Arnha auld bairns Ballad beautiful better bonnie Border Minstrelsy BURNS Busk called canna cauld Chaucer corruption de'il Deil Dictionary Dutch and Flemish e'en England English word etymology Flemish fool frae French Gaelic gang GEORGE BEATTIE German hame haud Highland Holy Fair Jacobite JAMES BALLANTINE Jamie Jamieson derives John kirk lady laird lish Lord Lost Preterites mair maun meaning mickle Minstrelsy mony muckle ne'er never o'er obsolete old English origin phrase Piers Ploughman poem poet possibly preterite probably RAMSAY RAMSAY'S Scots Proverbs Robert Burns root Ross's Helenore says Scotland Scottish Border Scottish language Scottish word sense Shakspeare Shanter signifies Sir Walter Scott slang sometimes written song synonymous Teutonic thou tion Twa Dogs verb weel whence wife WIRRY-COW woman ye'll Ye're
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