An Enquiry on a Psychological Basis Into the Use of the Progressive Form in Late Modern EnglishU. F. Duym, 1922 - 135 pages |
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adverb Akerlund Aktionsart Anglia Anstey Arabian Nights asked Bergeder Bowen Braddon consciousness crying Curwood Dark Flower definite Deutschbein Dolly durative Engl event examples express extended form eyes fact Floss following instances Form denoting frequently G. K. Chesterton Galer's Business Galsworthy Gerund girl Glyn gressive Form Grey Lady Hardy Norseman Harraden idea implies inchoative ingressive Intensivum interest J. R. Greene J. S. Winter Kazan King Laan Lady Audley Late Modern English Loneliness look lying Max Pemberton meaning mind nature object participle past Pemberton perception perfect tense perfective verb periphrasis periphrastic form Pinero Poutsma prefixes present perfect Prisoner of Zenda Progressive Form qualified duration quoted R. H. Benson R. L. Stevenson Rider Haggard Seton Merriman Ships that pass simple form statement subjective element subjective feelings Sweet talking Tanqueray Temple Thurston Thackeray things thought Three Ships Vanity Fair Williamson Woman of Kronstadt writer
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Page 43 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 87 - A gentle sound, an awful light ! Three angels bear the holy Grail : With folded feet, in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision ! blood of God ! My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And star-like mingles with the stars. When on my goodly charger borne Thro* dreaming towns I go, The cock crows ere the Christmas morn, The streets are dumb with snow.
Page 14 - Every one knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others...
Page 88 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 67 - Ships, towers, domes, theatres. and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Page 88 - She sings the wild song of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
Page 88 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Page 14 - Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why ? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items whieh I notice shape my mind— without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
Page 26 - Is Count von Hertling not aware that he is speaking in the court of mankind, that all the awakened nations of the world now sit in judgment on what every public man, of whatever nation, may say on the issues of a conflict which has spread to every region of the world?
Page 59 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.