"the verb in English is really from a (semi-)adjectival form in Latin. Even though many English words are formed this way, new coinages may sound strange, and are often used for humorous effect. For example, ""gruntled"" (from ""disgruntled"") is used only in humorous contexts, as when P. G. Wodehouse wrote, ""I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled"", or the character Turk in the American sitcom ""Scrubs"" told another character, ""I don't disdain you! It's quite the opposite – I dain you."" As it happens, ""gruntle"" and ""dain"" are both attested much earlier, but"
"that is; for, without periphrasis or wordy anguish, without circumlocution of officious and obtrusive, and therefore, artificial grief; the mourner gives sorrow words... But he does it in words as few as may be: how intense their beauty!"" A few years later, John Wright, an early Wordsworth commentator, described the contemporary perception that ""Strange fits"" had a ""deep but subdued and 'silent fervour'"". Other reviewers emphasised the importance of ""She dwelt among the untrodden ways"", including Scottish writer William Angus Knight (1836–1916), when he described the poem as an ""incomparable twelve lines"". At the beginning of the 20th century, literary"
"hated ignorance, but he hated still more half-learning, and most of all dishonesty in argument or in quotation. Himself the soul of honour and truthfulness, he had no toleration for the disingenuous argument and the misstatements of facts of those who wrote to support a theory or to defend an unsound cause. His pungent sarcasm soon reached the ears of the persons who were its object, and his pen was not less bitter than his tongue. He was conscious of his power, and not always sufficiently cautious or sufficiently gentle in its exercise. Nor was he always right. He trusted"
"by the most distinguished of his scholastic and intellectual opponents. It is a tragedy that he occupied no recognisable official position and founded no school. Perhaps this was so because he simply said and wrote what seemed to him to be exact and true, in his own unemphatic, careful prose, with all the qualifications that the truth seemed to demand. He did not modify or shape his thought to make it fit into a system. He did not exaggerate or over-schematise in order to obtain or attract attention for his ideas. He had an acute, ironical humour, was obstinate under"
"of diction, where the use of specialised terms and low concepts were deprecated. In 1697 Joseph Addison had published his “Essay on Virgil’s Georgics”, in which he particularly commended Virgil for the avoidance of these through a poetic technique whereby “He delivers the meanest of his precepts with a kind of grandeur, he breaks the clods and tosses the dung about with an air of gracefulness”. At one point Grainger drafted this sentiment directly into his poem in lines he later rejected, “The Muse on Lowliness can Worth impart:/ And scatter dung with conscious Majesty”, although ultimately preferring to scatter"
"was interpolated with sentences drawn from other writers, especially from apocryphal writings of Seneca the Younger. The number of genuine verses is about 700. They include many pithy sayings, such as the famous """"iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur"""" (""The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted"") adopted as its motto by the ""Edinburgh Review"". As of 1911, the best texts of the ""Sentences"" were those of Eduard Wölfflin (1869), A. Spengel (1874), and Wilhelm Meyer (1880), with complete critical apparatus and ""index verborum""; editions with notes by O. Friedrich (1880), R. A. H. Bickford-Smith (1895), with full bibliography; see"
"at its best was inferior to the finest efforts of John Bright. At a time when much speaking has depressed and almost exterminated eloquence, he maintained robust and intact that powerful and vigorous style of English which gave fitting expression to the burning and noble thoughts he desired to express. Another characteristic for which I think he will be famous is the singular rectitude of his motives, the singular straightness of his career. He was a keen disputant, a keen combatant; like many eager men, he had little tolerance of opposition. But his action was never guided for a single"
"six being written before his resignation of the editorship. He wrote quickly, at odd moments of leisure and with little special preparation. Great fluency and ease of diction, considerable warmth of imagination and moral sentiment, and a sharp eye to discover any oddity of style or violation of the accepted canons of good taste, made his criticisms pungent and effective. But the essential narrowness and timidity of his general outlook prevented him from detecting and estimating latent forces, either in politics or in matters strictly intellectual and moral; and this lack of understanding and sympathy accounts for his distrust and"
"""Encyclopædia Britannica"" and later published in his ""Miscellanies"" of 1886 an appreciation which included the following passage (here broken into paragraphs for easier reading): ""From nineteen almost to ninety his intellectual and literary activity was indefatigably incessant; but, herein at least like Charles Lamb, whose cordial admiration he so cordially returned, he could not write a note of three lines which did not bear the mark of his Roman hand in its matchless and inimitable command of a style at once the most powerful and the purest of his age. ""The one charge which can ever seriously be brought and"
"the editor of the collection Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth: ""He goes a wooing, yet the matter's so,""<br> ""He cares not much whether he speeds or no;""<br> ""'Cause City Wives and Wenches are so common,""<br> ""He thinks it hard to find an honest woman.""<br> ""Be n't angry with this fellow, I protest""<br> That many a true word hath been spoke in jest.<br> ""By degrees he layes a wager, money's scant,""<br> ""Until five shillings out; then ends his Rant."" James Joyce combined this sentiment with the similar adage of ""in vino veritas"" to coin the phrase ""in risu veritas"" (in laughter, truth). Many"
"him. The ideal human thus described will not be angry with the wrong-doer; he will only pity his erring. The earliest manuscript of the ""Discourses"" is a twelfth-century manuscript kept at the Bodleian Library, Oxford as MS Auct. T. 4. 13. In the Bodleian manuscript, a blot or stain has fallen onto one of the pages, and has made a series of words illegible; in all the other known manuscripts these words (or sometimes the entire passage) are omitted, thus all the other manuscripts are derived from this one archetype. It is thought that the Bodleian manuscript may be a"
"been, though not unsparingly, indulged"". The Cardinal's line in Act II, scene II, was more fully: The play opened at London's Covent Garden Theatre on 7 March 1839 with William Charles Macready in the lead role. Macready believed its opening night success was ""unequivocal""; Queen Victoria attended a performance on 14 March. In 1870, literary critic Edward Sherman Gould wrote that Bulwer ""had the good fortune to do, what few men can hope to do: he wrote a line that is likely to live for ages"". By 1888 another author, Charles Sharp, feared that repeating the phrase ""might sound trite"
"as revealed in his letters that he once pressed one of them to his forehead and exclaimed ""Saint Charles!"" It was the opinion of Thomas Noon Talfourd, who knew Lamb well, that there was scarcely one of his letters ""which has not some tinge of that quaint sweetness, some hint of that peculiar union of kindness and whim, which distinguishes him from all other poets and humorists."" Lamb's reputation as a writer may have fallen since the 19th and early 20th centuries, at any rate among academic critics, but he has never been short of readers who agree with the"
"keeping a judicious aim, become an active virtue itself), were elucidated in many instances and thrown with subtle keenness against vice, folly, and corruption. In testimony of this, he has left behind him many admired specimens both in prose and verse. The milder effusions of his genius abound in sentiment and pathos, equal at least to many of the more lauded poetical pieces of the day; and had he prosecuted with ardour that gift with which he was favoured, he might have laid claim to a palm which a less qualified muse may now possess. His humour was unbounded, and"
"that he is very sorry she was dead ... but he has not said this."" These parodies were intended to question definitive interpretation of the verse, and highlight its indeterminacies. She dwelt among the untrodden ways ""She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in ""Lyrical Ballads"", 1800, a volume of Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement. The poem is the best known of Wordsworth's series of five"
"Freidank Freidank (""Vrîdanc"") was a Middle High German didactic poet of the early 13th century. He is the author of ""Bescheidenheit"" (""practical wisdom, correct judgement, discretion""), a collection of rhyming aphorisms in 53 thematic divisions, extending to some 4,700 verses. The work was extremely popular in the German Middle Ages and is transmitted in numerous manuscripts, as well as in a Latin translation (""Fridangi Discretio""). Nothing about Freidank's life is known with certainty, such hypotheses as there are based on the language and content of his work ""Bescheidenheit"". He would have been born in the later 12th century, and was"
"difficulty. Many and long have been his excursions through the valley of the Connecticut, from Maine to Canada. He had a most intense hatred of all appearance of pretense an sham, which he took not the slightest pains to conceal. Charlatans would never meet him but once if it was in their power to avoid him. With all his learning and love for scientific acquisition, he left nothing in writing, either as a book or writings for periodicals, if except a few papers prepared for the Vermont Journal on the subject of Temperance in its scientific aspects. He was distrustful"
"perfectly easy and gentlemanlike and though the first impression would be from his extreme politeness and continual smiles that he was a good-natured silly fop, yet one soon sees from the keen inquisitive glances which involuntarily escape from him, that he is concelaling, under an almost childish lightness of manner, a close and accurate study of his visitor...His friends ascribe every action to the most disinterested patriotism; but his enemies hesitate not to pronounce them all to have for their end his party or private interest...Here, as is often the case, truth lies between the two extremes"". Mavokordhatos, a crafty,"
"anything about ""gentleman"" or ""petty man""? Dull and ununwitting, men have no wisdom; thus their Virtue does not depart from them. Dull and unwitting, they have no desire; this is called uncarved simplicity. In uncarved simplicity the people attain their true nature. Then along comes the sage, huffing and puffing after benevolence, reaching on tiptoe for righteousness, and the world for the first time has doubts; mooning and mouthing over his music, snipping and stitching away at his rites, and the world for the first time is divided. Thus, if the plain unwrought substance had not been blighted, how would"
"came to his attention. Despite being described as the ""quintessential Englishman"" because of his writing style and having his letters regularly published, his identity was never known because he would only identify himself as ""Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"". However, some reports have popularly rumoured that this person was a retired colonel who served in the British Indian Army during the British Raj. In 2014, the ""Kent and Sussex Courier"" claimed that the originator of ""Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"" was the retired British Army colonel George Thomas Howe, who had developed a skill for letter writing about apartheid after five years"
"bated breath"" (""Merchant of Venice"") and ""a foregone conclusion"" (""Othello"") have found their way into everyday English speech. Shakespeare was not revered in his lifetime, but he received a large amount of praise. In 1598, the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as ""the most excellent"" in both comedy and tragedy. The authors of the ""Parnassus"" plays at St John's College, Cambridge numbered him with Chaucer, Gower, and Spenser. In the First Folio, Ben Jonson called Shakespeare the ""Soul of the age, the applause, delight, the wonder of our stage"", though he"
"Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book ""Walden"", a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay ""Civil Disobedience"" (originally published as ""Resistance to Civil Government""), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the"
"to strike, did not fight but bickered."" He is still known today by the surviving analyses of his speeches by Quintilian, Seneca and Tacitus. All three authors are ambivalent towards him, regarding him to be talented and witty (Quintilian calls him compulsory reading) but at times as too passionate and thus often inordinate and ridiculous. Tacitus uses him as an example to explain the ""boundary"" between the rhetoric of the Republic and the Principate, and in his ""Annals"" he called him: ""A man of mean origin and a life of crime, but a powerful pleader, [who brought his exile] on"
"hostility that survives his death, he did nothing that he did not really want to do, and all that he most wanted to do he did. He went all over the world, he owned a ranch, he lived in the most beautiful corners of Europe, and met whom he wanted to meet and told them that they were wrong and he was right. He painted and made things, and sang, and rode. He wrote something like three dozen books, of which even the worst page dances with life that could be mistaken for no other man's, while the best are"
"have, however, been called into question. An anonymous epigram (""Anth. Gr."" 9.380) speaks of Palladas as having a high poetical reputation. However, Isaac Casaubon dismisses him in two contemptuous words as ""versificator insulsissimus"" (""a most coarse poet""). John William Mackail concurs with Casaubon, writing that ""this is true of a great part of his work, and would perhaps be true of it all but for the savage indignation which kindles his verse, not into the flame of poetry, but to a dull red heat."" There is little direct allusion in his epigrams to the struggle against the onslaught of Christianity."
"solemn professions to the public. The sacrifice of Lord Chatham was not lost on him. Even the cowardice and perfidy of deserting him may have done you no disservice in his esteem. The instance was painful, but the principle might please."""" What seems artificial and stilted in this style did not offend the would-be classic taste of the eighteenth century and no longer conceals a venomous hate and scorn that the laboriously arranged words and artfully counterbalanced clauses convey. The pre-established harmony between Junius and his readers accounts for the rapidity of his success, and for the importance attributed to"
"— is handled with intimate knowledge and with a careful clearness of arrangement easy for the most ignorant to follow. While exhorting all to be content with their station in life, he denounces oppressive taxes, unjust judges, usury, and dishonest trade. Jews and heretics are to be abhorred, and players who draw people's minds away to worldly pleasure; dances and tournaments are also condemned, and he has a word of blame for the women's vanity and proneness to gossip. He is never dry, always vivid and graphic, mingling with his exhortations a variety of anecdotes, jests, and the wild etymologies"
"""von den zehen geboten"" (the Ten Commandments), 51. ""von dem tôde"" (death), 52. ""von dem jungesten tage"" (the Last Judgment), 53. ""ein gebet"" (a prayer). Freidank Freidank (""Vrîdanc"") was a Middle High German didactic poet of the early 13th century. He is the author of ""Bescheidenheit"" (""practical wisdom, correct judgement, discretion""), a collection of rhyming aphorisms in 53 thematic divisions, extending to some 4,700 verses. The work was extremely popular in the German Middle Ages and is transmitted in numerous manuscripts, as well as in a Latin translation (""Fridangi Discretio""). Nothing about Freidank's life is known with certainty, such hypotheses"
"seen as less intelligent. In William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"", one of Polonius's many sententious maxims reads Shakespeare's audiences were not necessarily inclined to read Polonius as someone who is perfectly wise; his sentences, like that of much early modern drama, can easily be seen as part of a comic trope. George Orwell mocked logorrhea in ""Politics and the English Language"" (1946) by taking verse (9:11) from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible ""I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise,"
"as close to dead as possible while alive and matter as little as possible in life and death. On one hand, the Houyhnhnms have an orderly and peaceful society. They have philosophy and a language that is entirely free of political and ethical nonsense. They have no word for a ""lie"" (and must substitute a circumlocution: ""to say a thing which is not""). They also have a form of art that is derived from nature. Outside ""Gulliver's Travels"", Swift had expressed longstanding concern over the corruption of the English language, and he had proposed language reform. He had also, in"
"Movement were not his sermons but his editorials for various restorationist papers. After his death, it was commented that ""powerful, because honest earnest, intellectual, sincere, scriptural, and logical, in the pulpit, he was more and most potential in wielding the pen. He was a clear, concise, convincing writer. To say he was peerless in his specific sphere is to speak the simple truth in disparagement of none."" Srygley was noted in his writings for his wry wit and controversial, often aggressive nature. While his writings touched on the full scope of the issues facing the movement in the late 19th"
"trifling ambition""; on the other, it ""brings many things to notice that would be neglected, and, by fixing the thoughts upon intellectual pleasures, resists the natural encroachments of sensuality."" Published: Saturday, 19 May 1759 Johnson describes his companion Sophron (""wisdom""), who exemplifies prudence. He is frugal, never gossips, never takes sides in a dispute or gives advice. Yet while this approach to life has kept him safe from disadvantages, it has brought him no advantages either. Published: Saturday, 26 May 1759 Johnson observes that ""pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought"". Gatherings of humourists are always disappointing because"
"contemporaries. In his first issue Raymond announced his purpose to write in temperate and measured language and to get into a passion as rarely as possible. ""There are few things in this world which it is worth while to get angry about; and they are just the things anger will not improve."" In controversy he meant to avoid abusive language. His style was gentle, candid, and decisive, and achieved its purpose by facility, clearness, and moderation rather than by powerful fervor and invective. His editorials were generally cautious, impersonal, and finished in form. With abundant self-respect and courtesy, he avoided,"