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"They are trying to shoot us with rockets!" yelled Dan Baxter."Take that!" said Sack Todd, and fired point-blank at the houseboat.
The bullet hit a pane of glass in the cabin window, and there was a
jingle followed by a yell from Hans."Sthop dot! Ton't kill me! I ain't vos tone noddings alretty! Of you
schoot me again ... |
"If they went to New Orleans then we ought to go too--and be quick
about it," said Dick."Don't you want to send some word to the ladies and the girls first?"
asked Harold Bird."To be sure. We can send a telegram for all, and then send letters, too."This was done, and the ladies and girls were told not to be alarmed--th... |
"You'll wake up!" cried Harold Bird, and between them he and Dick
shook the fellow until he was thoroughly aroused. When he realized
his position he was greatly alarmed."Oh, gentlemen, it's all a mistake," he whined. "I--er--I didn't run
off with the launch, or the houseboat either. All a mistake, I tell you!""It was a... |
"We have come to complain of the food served at dinner," said Dick.
"It was so poor we could not eat it.""Oh, the food is all right," answered the captain in an overbearing tone."No, it is not all right," put in Harold Bird."We paid for first-class accommodations and we want first-class food,"
put in Tom, with spirit."... |
"I think Dick went overboard too, although I am not sure," came, in
Sam's tones."Yah, I dink dot," answered Hans Mueller. "Und I dink Tom he falls
ofer also alretty!""Hullo, there!" cried Dick.--"Is that you, Sam?""Who calls?" came the answering query. "It is I, Dick Rover!""Dick!" came from Sam and Hans."Where are you... |
"_Flying Dutchmans_?" queried Hans. "Der vos no Dutchmans vot fly,
vos dare?""Tom is speaking of a phantom ship with a phantom crew, I guess,"
said Sam. "Tom, how are you going to get on deck?" he added, to his
brother.This was a question Tom could not answer at once. The rail of the
steam yacht was some feet above the... |
"I think we are about here," said Dick, when all came together in
the cabin, and he traced a circle on the chart with a lead pencil.
"Now if that is so, then we'll have to steer directly southeast to
reach Tampa Bay.""Hurrah for Captain Dick!" cried Tom. "Dick, you get your diploma as
soon as we land.""Well, isn't that... |
"Oh, that would be slow work!" cried Sam. "Let us try to fix the
pipe. I saw some extra pieces in the tool room. Maybe one of them
will fit."With the engine room cleared of steam they inspected the split pipe.
It was a piece exactly two feet long, and they looked over the pieces
in the tool room and found one just half... |
With the coming of night the storm appeared to increase. It was
pitch-black on every side and Dick did not dare to run the _Mermaid_
at more than quarter speed--just enough to keep her from swinging
around broadside to the storm. All the lanterns were lit and hung
up, Sam doing this with an oilsilk coat around him--a g... |
Dick could say little more just then and did not try. Sam and Tom
made him as comfortable as possible and found he had suffered only
from the fall of the topmast and not the lightning stroke itself."If Hans felt a little better he might look after Dick, but he is
still as sick as ever," said Tom. "He declares we are al... |
Sam took the second picture, and all on board the steam yacht discussed
the discovery for some time. But they could reach no conclusion saving
that Mr. Bird had likely been on the vessel at one time and had left
his coat and the two pictures behind him."Perhaps he was on this vessel after he disappeared from Kingston,"... |
He spoke a few words in a low tone to his two men and they passed
into the galley, where Hans and Sam showed them the food that was on
board. In the meantime Sid Jeffers went on a hunt for liquor, and
finding a bottle took a long drink, and then passed it over to Sack
Todd and the others."Dick, I don't like this at all... |
"Put him in another of the staterooms,--for the present," answered
Sack Todd. "After we have got them all we can put them somewhere else.""Shall we search him?" went on Dan Baxter, who was anxious to know
what Sam might be carrying."Not now--we haven't time."Poor Sam was placed in a stateroom next to that occupied by H... |
"Oh, yes, after a fashion," answered the youngest Rover. "But they
handled me pretty roughly.""And you, Hans?""I dink I vos peen putty vell hammered alretty. Py chimanatics! I
vish I could drow dem all oferpoard, ain't it!""We are in a box, in more ways than one," said Tom."What did they do to you?" questioned Dick, an... |
"Shut up!" muttered Sack Todd. "The dose won't kill him.""Reckon they are all laid out," was Gasper Pold's comment, as he
peered down the hatchway. "I'll go down and make sure." And he passed
down the iron ladder, pistol in hand."How about it?" came from the mate of the _Dogstar_."Stiff as corpses," was the brutal answ... |
"He's sly enough," he reasoned. "And yet his eyes had a look in them
that I never saw before. He looked like a worried wild animal, that
doesn't know how to turn or what to do. He's down here all alone
among strangers, and evidently he has found out that Sack Todd and
the rest aren't his sort. Well, if he wants to refo... |
"I don't know as you ought to do that--but I'd like you to do it.
I'd like to have the chance to go away--far away--and strike out
fresh. My father wants me to do it--he's written me three letters
about it. He wants me to go to the Hawaiian Islands, or the Philippines,
or to Australia. He says--but I don't suppose you ... |
"It may be true," said Dick. "I shouldn't want the man to die just
because we had refused him water.""It may be a trick, just to get the hatch open again," put in Dan
Baxter. "If I were you I wouldn't trust them. I know that crowd better
than you do.""You can have water in the morning," called down Dick. "In the meanti... |
"I am certainly sorry for you, Dan--especially after what you did
for our crowd to-night. If you really want to turn over a new leaf
I am willing to help you all I can. But you know how the law stands--we
can't let you go after what has happened in the past. If you come up
for trial, though, I'll be as easy as I can on... |
"You have done me a splendid service, Baxter," said the young
Southerner, after the excitement was over. "I shall not forget you.
When the proper time comes, if you need legal aid, I'll see to it
that you have a first-class lawyer.""Thank you," answered the former bully, humbly. "I only did my duty,
which I should have... |
"Hullo, everybody!" called out Dick, and tumbled out of the train,
to kiss his aunt and shake hands all around. "Home again, and glad
of it!""And we are glad to see you all!" answered his father. And then there
was general rejoicing, and here we will take our leave.THE END |
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LETTER
FROM THE
LORD BISHOP
OF
_LONDON_,
TO THE
CLERGY and PEOPLE
OF
_London_ and _Westminster_;
On Occasion of the Late
EARTHQUAKES._L... |
When Men, not content with indulging their own brutish Passions, take
Pains to corrupt others, they act with such cool and diabolical Malice,
as outdoes former Examples, and seems to be a Challenge to the Power
and Justice of God--Have not all the Abominations of the publick Stews
been opened to View by lewd Pictures e... |
If a Regard for the Publick is not a Motive strong enough in this Case,
let every Magistrate consider that there is another of infinite
Importance to himself; for if all Power be the _Ordinance_ of God, He
will undoubtedly demand an Account of the Exercise of it: And who is
he, that has so little to answer for on his o... |
Produced by A. Light, Linda Bowser, and Rick NilesTHE COLLECTED POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKEby Rupert Brooke[British Poet -- 1887-1915.]1915 edition[A new Appendix is included in this etext, consisting of poems
ABOUT or TO Rupert Brooke.]The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
with an introduction by George Edward Wo... |
or the sestet of "Waikiki", or the whole fainting sonnet
entitled "A Memory", belong to the nadir of vitality. At moments
weariness set in like a spiritual tide. I associate, too, with such moods,
psychologically at least, his visions of the "arrested moment", as in
"Dining-Room Tea", -- a sort of trance state -- or ... |
There is a grave in Scyros, amid the white and pinkish marble of the isle,
the wild thyme and the poppies, near the green and blue waters.
There Rupert Brooke was buried. Thither have gone the thoughts
of his countrymen, and the hearts of the young especially.
It will long be so. For a new star shines in the English ... |
Lo! from quiet skies
In through the window my Lord the Sun!
And my eyes
Were dazzled and drunk with the misty gold,
The golden glory that drowned and crowned me
Eddied and swayed through the room . . .
Around me,
To left and to right,
Hunched figures and... |
Come away! Come away!
Ye are sober and dull through the common day,
But now it is night!
It is shameful night, and God is asleep!
(Have you not felt the quick fires that creep
Through the hungry flesh, and the lust of delight,
And hot secrets of dreams that day cannot say?).
The house is dumb;... |
I think if you had loved me when I wanted;
If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes,
And found my wild sick blasphemous prayer granted,
And your brown face, that's full of pity and wise,
Flushed suddenly; the white godhead in new fear
Intolerably so struggling, and so shamed;
Most holy and far,... |
But there the night is close, and there
Darkness is cold and strange and bare;
And the secret deeps are whisperless;
And rhythm is all deliciousness;
And joy is in the throbbing tide,
Whose intricate fingers beat and glide
In felt bewildering harmonies
Of trembling touch; and music is
The exquis... |
Their little dull greasy eyes will water;
They'll paw you, and gulp afresh.
They'll sniffle and weep, and their thoughts will creep
Like flies on the cold flesh.They will put pence on your grey eyes,
Bind up your fallen chin,
And lay you straight, the fools that loved you
Because they were your ki... |
When I see you, who were so wise and cool,
Gazing with silly sickness on that fool
You've given your love to, your adoring hands
Touch his so intimately that each understands,
I know, most hidden things; and when I know
Your holiest dreams yield to the stupid bow
Of his red lips, and that the empty gr... |
When you were there, and you, and you,
Happiness crowned the night; I too,
Laughing and looking, one of all,
I watched the quivering lamplight fall
On plate and flowers and pouring tea
And cup and cloth; and they and we
Flung all the dancing moments by
With jest and glitter. Lip and eye
Flashed... |
Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void,
lost in the haunted wood,
I have tended and loved, year upon year, I in the solitude
Waiting, quiet and glad-eyed in the dark, knowing that once a gleam
Glowed and went through the wood. Still I abode strong in a golden dream,
Unrecaptured.
... |
And my laughter, and my pain,
Shall home to the Eternal Brain.
And all lovely things, they say,
Meet in Loveliness again;
Miri's laugh, Teipo's feet,
And the hands of Matua,
Stars and sunlight there shall meet,
Coral's hues and rainbows there,
And Teura's braided hair;
And with the starred 't... |
Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,
Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)
Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
Each secret fishy hope or fear.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
This life cannot be All, they swear,
For how unpleasant, if it were!
One may not doubt... |
Dear, we know only that we sigh, kiss, smile;
Each kiss lasts but the kissing; and grief goes over;
Love has no habitation but the heart.
Poor straws! on the dark flood we catch awhile,
Cling, and are borne into the night apart.
The laugh dies with the lips, 'Love' with the lover.South Kensington -- ... |
Young Mary, loitering once her garden way,
Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day,
As wine that blushes water through. And soon,
Out of the gold air of the afternoon,
One knelt before her: hair he had, or fire,
Bound back above his ears with golden wire,
Baring the eager marble of his face.
... |
ei'/qe genoi/mhn . . . would I were *
In Grantchester, in Grantchester! --
Some, it may be, can get in touch
With Nature there, or Earth, or such.
And clever modern men have seen
A Faun a-peeping through the green,
And felt the Classics were not dead,
To glimpse a Naiad's reedy head,
Or hear the... |
It does but double the heart-ache
When I wake, when I wake.1912 (?).Sonnet: in Time of RevoltThe Thing must End. I am no boy! I am
No BOY! I being twenty-one. Uncle, you make
A great mistake, a very great mistake,
In chiding me for letting slip a "Damn!"
What's more, you called me "Mother's one ewe
... |
He was born at Rugby on August 3, 1887, his father, William Brooke,
being an assistant master at the school. Here Brooke was educated,
and in 1905 won a prize for a poem called "The Bastille",
which has been described as "fine, fluent stuff." He took a keen interest
in every form of athletic sport, and played both cr... |
On Brooke, as on many other young men, to whom the gift of self-expression
has perhaps been denied, the war had a swiftly maturing influence.
Much of the impetuosity of youth fell away from him. The boy who had been
rather proud of his independent views -- a friend relates how
at the age of twelve he sat on the platfo... |
"This -- this music, this beauty, this courage -- was Rupert Brooke.
But it is, we may be sure, his immortality. It is not yet tolerable
to speak of personal loss. The name seemed to stand for a magical vitality
that must be safe -- safe! Yes, 'and if these poor limbs die,
safest of all!' What poetry has lost in hi... |
Transcribed from the 1904 David Nutt edition by David Price, email
ccx074@coventry.ac.ukA HANDBOOK OF THE CORNISH LANGUAGE
CHIEFLY IN ITS LATEST STAGES WITH SOME ACCOUNT
OF ITS HISTORY AND LITERATUREBY
HENRY JENNERMEMBER OF THE GORSEDD OF THE BARDS OF BR... |
A few words of comprehensive apology for the shortcomings of this
handbook. When the writer was asked by the Secretary of the
Celtic-Cornish Society to undertake a Cornish grammar, which was the
origin of this book, it was more than twenty years since he had dropped
his Cornish studies in favour of other and more imme... |
The Celtic languages belong to the type known as Aryan or Indo-European,
the language of the higher or white races whose original habitat was once
taken to have been near or among the Himalayas, but is now located with
much less exactness than heretofore. To this class belong the Sanscrit,
with its multitude of Indian... |
Though a philologist has much to say on the points of resemblance between
the Goidelic and Brythonic branches, and though no one who studies both
can fail to be struck by their affinity in vocabulary, in grammar, and
even in idiom, the speakers of different branches--a Welshman and a
Highlander, for instance--are no mo... |
In a letter of 1328-9 from John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter,
1327-1369, to Pope John XXII., the writer speaks of Cornwall as looking
on the south upon Vasconia [Gascony] and Minor Britannia [Brittany]
{10b}; "Cujus lingua ipsi utuntur Cornubici." And in another letter in
the same year to certain cardinals he says:... |
"The Cornish people for the moste parte are descended of British stocke,
though muche mixed since with the Saxon and Norman bloude, but untill of
late years retayned the British speache uncorrupted as theirs of Wales
is. For the South Wales man understandeth not perfectly the North Wales
man, and the North Wales man l... |
In the early part of the eighteenth century there was a little coterie of
antiquaries at Penzance and the neighbourhood, who had busied themselves
much with the remains of the old language. The patriarch of these was
old John Keigwin of Mousehole, the translator of the _Poem of the
Passion_ and the play of _The Creati... |
Mr. Hobson Matthews in his _History of St. Ives_, _Lelant_, _Towednack_,
_and Zennor_, has an interesting chapter on Cornish. He gives reasons
for supposing that the language survived in St. Ives, Zennor, and
Towednack even longer than in Mounts Bay, and states that the families of
Stevens and Trewhella were among the... |
But running through the whole and interwoven with the Scriptural
narrative comes the beautiful and curious Legend of the Cross. The
legend, most of which is in the dramas, is this. When Adam found himself
dying, he sent his son Seth to the Gates of Paradise to beg of the angel
that guarded them the oil of mercy, that... |
11. _Nebbaz Gerriau dro tho Carnoack_ (A few words about Cornish), by
John Boson of Newlyn. The only known MS. of this little tract in Cornish
and English was formerly among the MSS. of Dr. William Borlase in the
possession of his descendant, Mr. W. C. Borlase. The present writer had
it in his possession for a short... |
2. A song beginning "_Ma leeas gwreage_, _lacka vel zeage_," a series of
moral platitudes on married life and the bringing up of children, by
James Jenkins of Alverton, near Penzance (died 1710). This consists of
five stanzas of five or six lines each. There is a complete copy in the
Gwavas MS., and a copy wanting o... |
2. Mottoes of the families of Gwavas, Harris of Hayne, {39} Glynne,
Tonkin, Godolphin, Boscawen, Polwhele, Noye, and Willyams of Carnanton.
All except those of Glynne, Noye, and Willyams are printed in Pryce. All
but Glynne and Willyams occur in Davies Gilbert's edition of Jordan's
_Creation_, and the Willyams motto,... |
6. By Thomas Boson, in the Gwavas MS. Unpublished.7, 8. By William Gwavas, in the Gwavas MS. Unpublished.There is a modern revised version in Williams's Lexicon.The Ten Commandments.1, 2. By John Keigwin, one in the Gwavas MS., and both in the Borlase
MS., and in Pryce and D. Gilbert. One of these in a revised fo... |
5. An open long _y_, which may have been sounded _ee_ (_î_) in Middle
Cornish, often later became _ei_ (or as _i_ in _mine_), though there
are inconsistencies in this respect, showing that the change was not
universal.6. In a considerable number of cases short _o_ became the "obscure
vowel," _o_ of _London_ o... |
In some words, and especially before a liquid followed by a consonant,
_a_ tends to be sounded as _aw_ or short _o_. Thus _âls_, cliff,
_gwander_, weakness, _wartha_, upper, are sounded _awls_, _gwonder_,
_wortha_ or _worra_, and _brâs_, great, is sounded _brawz_.In unaccented syllables _a_ represents nearly the sound... |
For _â_ of the _a_, _aa_ Lhuyd _â_.
present system,, _a_ ,, _a_, _u_, _e_, _o_ ,, _a_.,, _ê_ ,, _ea_ ,, _ê_.,, _e_ ,, _e_, _i_ ,, _e_.,, _î_ ,, _ee_ ,, _î_, _ŷ_.,, _i_ ,, ... |
15. _s_ is the most puzzling of the consonants. It had probably four or
five different values in the MSS., and might represent _s_, _z_, _sh_,
_zh,_ _j_ according to circumstances. As an initial, or before _c_, _k_,
_f_, _l_, _m_, _n,_ _p_, _q_, _r_, _t_, _w_, it was generally _s_, as in
_so_; as a final, and before... |
In all the Celtic languages there are certain partly grammatical and
partly phonetic changes of the first letters of words, which are called
by various names, the most convenient of which is _initial mutations_.
These changes take place in Cornish when words beginning with the letters
_P_, _C_ or _K_, _T_ or _Ch_, _B_,... |
There are a few irregular mutations. Rarely a _B_ after the adverbial
particle _en_ changes to _F_ instead of _P_, e.g. _en fras_, greatly,
from _bras_, sometimes an _M_ after the same particle changes to _F_,
sometimes an initial _G_ becomes _Wh_, not _C_ or _K_, for the fourth
state, and in the MSS. there are other ... |
_bownans_, life, from _bewa_, to live._marnans_, death, from _marwel_ or _merwel_, to die._selwans_, salvation, from _selwel_, to save._tristyans_, sadness, from _trist_, sad._tibyans_, thought, from _tibya_, to think.This termination answers to the Latin _antia_ or _entia_, and the English
_ance_ or _ence_. It is gen... |
1. The genitive of possession is the appositional genitive. This is
formed by placing the noun that is in the genitive immediately after the
noun which it qualifies, or, if the former has the definite article, or
is qualified by a possessive pronoun or prefixed adjective, with only
these intervening. No change of in... |
_profes_, prophet, _profesy_ or _profejy_._servis_, servant, _servisy_ or _servijy_._gwithes_, guardian, _gwithesy_. _arledh_, lord, _arledhy_._trahes_, cutter, _trahesy_ (e.g. _trahesy meyn_, stone cutters).This plural is mostly used for words ending in _l_ and _s_, though not
exclusively, and it occurs occasionally ... |
1. By changing the initial to the second state, if it is mutable. This
only happens when the adjective _follows_ a feminine singular noun. When
the adjective _precedes_ the noun, singular or plural, and when it
follows a masculine singular noun or a plural of either gender, the
initial of the adjective remains in it... |
_Nouns which follow numerals are put in the singular number_, {96} unless
they are preceded by the preposition _a_, of. Thus:--_wheh dên_, six men, not _wheh denyon_ or _wheh tîs_._trŷ mab_, three sons, not _trŷ mebyon_._pajer paw_, not _pajer pawyow_, four feet (a name still used in the
English of Cornwall for a ne... |
6. Second Person Singular. English, _you_. Letter, _Wh_, _Gh_, or _S_.1st form. _whŷ_. _whŷ a vedn_, you will.2nd form. _whŷ_. _nî wreugh whŷ_, you do
not.3rd form. '_s_. _ev ... |
When a pronoun is the object of a verb in the infinitive or of a verb
formed with the auxiliary verbs _gwîl_, to do, _menny_, to will, etc. and
an infinitive, the pronoun-object is represented by the possessive
pronoun preceding and governing (as to initial mutation) this
infinitive:--_ev a wrîg ow tholla_, he did dece... |
If the verb following the relative begins with a vowel, _a_ is often
omitted. Thus:--_Ow thîs es genev_, my people who are with me.If the relative sentence is negative, _ni_, not, coalesces with _a_,
producing _na_. Thus:--_En le na vê dên bisqweth_, in a place in which man never was.When the relative is the object o... |
_Aral_, other, plural _erel_, is sometimes used for _e gîla_. It is the
usual word for _other_ or _another_: _dên aral_, another man.Another form occasionally used in Cornish for either gender, though in
Breton it is only used for the regular feminine of _e gîla_ (_e gile_) is
_eben_, older form _yben_:--_Heys Crist a... |
II. Imperfect or Secondary Present.Singular. Plural.1. _--en_. _--en_.2. _--es_. _--eugh_.3. _--a_. _--ens_.III. Preterite.Singular. Plural.1. _--m--ys_. _--son_ [earlier_--m--sen_].2. _--m--ses_. _--sough_.3. _--as_. ... |
3. _yu_, _ăthyu_, _thyu_, _yua_, _ăthyua_, _thyua_.Plur. 1. _on_, _ăthon_, _thon_.2. _ough_, _ăthough_, _though_.3. _ens_, _ăthens_, _thens_.There is little or no difference of meaning in these forms. The
lengthened form _ăthov_, or its apocopated _thov_, is generally found at
the beginning of an assertion.... |
2. _bês_ (older _bus_, _bues_) _besta_. 2. _beugh_.3. _bê_ (older _bue_). 3. _bons_.This tense is more frequently used in the impersonal, _mî a vê_, _tî a
vê_, etc.IV. PLUPERFECT, _I had been_.Singular. Plural.1. _bîen_ (older written 1. _bîen_ (_byen_).
... |
_Mî a wrello_, _tî a wrello_, etc._Mî a wreffa_, _tî a wreffa_, etc.VI. THE IMPERATIVE.Singular. Plural.1. wanting. 1. _gwren_, let us do.2. _gwra_, do thou. 2. _gwreugh_, do ye.3. _gwrens_, let him do. 3. _gwrens_, _gwrons_, let them do.INFINITIVE, _... |
I.A. THE CONTINUOUS OR HABITUAL PRESENT._Thov vi ow cara_, I am loving.The rest as in the present tense of _bos_, to be, followed by the present
participle. The negative form of this is:--_Nynsoma_ or _nynsov ow cara_, etc.I.B. THE PASSIVE PRESENT._Dhov vî keres_, I am loved.The rest as the present of _bos_, followe... |
(b). The auxiliary.Singular. Plural.1. wanting. 1. _gwren cara_.2. _gwra cara_. 2. _gwreugh cara_.3. _gwrens cara_ or _gwrens e cara_. 3. _gwrens ŷ cara_.CHAPTER XI--THE IRREGULAR VERBSThe irregular verbs are:--_mô... |
2. _dogy_. 2. _dogeugh_.3. _dogo_, _doga_. 3. _dogens_.IMPERATIVE.Singular. Plural.1. wanting. 1. _dogen_.2. _dog_, _doga_. 2. _degeugh_.3. _degens_. 3. _degens_.INFINITIVE, _dôn_, _doga_, or _degy_.PARTICIPLE. PRESENT, _ow tôn_ or _ow tegy_; PAS... |
_gan_, _gans_, with, by._heb_, without, governs second state._kens_, before (of time)._lebmen_, _lemmen_, except, but._ŏja_, _wŏja_, after (older form, _wose_)._rag_, for, because of._re_, by (in swearing), governs second state._reb_, by, near, beside._saw_, save, except, but._treba_, _tereba_, until._troha_, towards._... |
_a wedh_, _enwedh_, also._gwell_, better._lakkah_, worse._moy_, more._leh_, less._kens vel_, rather than.MISCELLANEOUS ADVERBS_cowal_, _cowl_, quite._namna_, almost._ken_, else._martesan_, perhaps._betegens_, nevertheless._moghya_, mostly._ketel_, _ketella_, so._pŭr_ (governing second state), very._brâs_ / _fest_ } (pl... |
This order is used in Cornish also when the impersonal form of the main
verb or of the auxiliary is used, and the object is not a personal
pronoun. Thus:--_Dew a gar an bês_, God loveth the world._Dew a wra cara an bês_, God doth love the world.One of these two forms is the most usual in a direct affirmative
principal... |
_Mar qwressa an dên deskes fîr-na gwelas hemma_,
If should [do] that man learned wise see this,
_ev a venja cavos fraga e ewna en scrîfa-composter_.
he would find why it to amend in writing-correctness.In this sentence _qwressa_ is for _gwressa_ (third person singular of the
conditional or pluperfect of the... |
A somewhat similar absolute clause of a descriptive character occurs
occasionally:--_An golom_, _glas hy lagas_, _yn mes gura hy delyfre_, the dove, blue
her eyes, do set her free (_Origo Mundi_, 1105-6)._Un flogh yonk_, _gwyn y dhyllas_, a young child, white his raiment
(_Passion_, 254, 3).In a similar constructio... |
2. [_why_] _as_ (or _agas_) [_c'houi_] _ho pez_.
_bedh_.3. [_y_] _as tevedh_. [_hî_] _o devez_.It will be seen here and in the other tenses that the pronouns in Breton
do not produce exactly the same mutations as in Cornish. The _dh_ of
Cornish is always written _z_ in Breton, though that is pron... |
_Pandresses_ (i.e. _pa'n dra wresses_). What shouldst thou do?_Fatla genough why_ (pron. _fatla génawhy_). How are you?_Trova_ (i.e. _tre o-va_), that he was.§ 6. Rules for Initial Mutations.1. _The Second State_._a_. _A feminine singular_ or _masculine plural_ noun (or adjective
used as a noun) preceded by the ... |
The seven-syllabled lines are the more common. The whole of the _Poem of
the Passion_ is in stanzas of eight seven-syllabled lines, rhyming
alternately, but written as fourteen-syllabled lines; and the greater
part of the Dramas is in lines of the same length, though with varying
arrangements of rhymes. Sometimes who... |
_A mester whek· gorthys re by_ O sweet master, glorified be thou,
_Pan wreth mar tek· agan dysky_. When thou dost so sweetly teach us.
_Asson whansek· ol the pysy_, How we desire all to pray,
_Lettrys na lek· war Thu mercy_! Learned and lay, to God for mercy!The same two rhymes run through a stanza of ... |
_Pan dél go gwáry_ What their play is like,_Ha mádra tá_ And consider well_Pandrig séera ha dámma_, What did father and mother,_Na ra hens_ [_wrans_?] _móaz dan They will not go to the wood
cóoz__Do kúntle go bóoz_. {188} To gather their food.The latter part h... |
1. The gender of the noun. Of the nouns mentioned above, _tre_, _ros_,
_car_, _lan_, _whêl_, _hal_, _goon_, _carrack_, _crows_, _fenton_,
_kelly_, _trigva_, _mellan_, _bron_, _tor_, are feminine, so that the
initial of the adjective epithet is changed to the second state. This
may often, more or less, determine whet... |
1. Names derived from places."By Tre, Pol, and Pen,
Ye shall know Cornishmen."or as Camden more correctly expands it at the expense of metre:--"By Tre, Ros, Pol, Lan, Car, and Pen,
Ye shall know the most Cornishmen."And he might have added many more prefixes. It is probable that many of
these names originated... |
This is only a slight sketch of a considerable range of investigation,
but the subject would require a book to itself, so that it is impossible
here to do more than indicate the direction in which students of Cornish
nomenclature should work. But in the investigation of place-names in any
language one must always allo... |
11. Copy of a MS. in Cornish and English from the MSS. of Dr. Borlase.
_Nebbaz Gerriau dro tho Carnoack_. By John Boson. Edited by W. C.
Borlase. _Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall_, Nov. 1879.
8vo.12. An English-Cornish Dictionary. Compiled from the best sources. By
Fred. W. P. Jago. Luke, Plymouth;... |
{59b} The word _bewnans_, life, formed from the root _bew_, was often
written _bownans_ in late Cornish and probably pronounced _boonans_.
Similarly _bowjy_ (=_bewgh-chŷ_), cow-house, must have been _bewjy_.
This last, which is one of the surviving Cornish words, has its _ow_ at
present sounded as in _now_. This chan... |
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and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
https://www.pgdp.net_PANDEMIC__BY J. F. BONE__Generally,
human beings don't do
totally useless things
consistently and widely.
So--maybe there is
something to it--_"We call it ... |
"There was nothing wrong with it. The only trouble was that he wound up
with something else entirely. He was like the man who wanted to make a
plastic suitable for children's toys and ended up with a new explosive.
You see, what Thurston didn't realize was that his cultures were
contaminated. He'd secured them from the... |
"Watch." Dr. Kramer pressed a button on the console in front of him. A
section of flooring slid aside and the table tipped. "The cadaver slides
off that table and through that hole. Down below is a highly efficient
crematorium."Mary shivered. "Neat and effective," she said shakily."After that the whole room is sprayed ... |
"Play like one," Kramer growled. "Here are the facts. The disease
attacks people of all races and ages. So far every one who is attacked
dies. Adult Europeans and Americans appear to be somewhat more resistant
than others on a population basis. Somewhere around sixty per cent of
them are still alive, but it's wiped out... |
Poor Walter--she sighed. Sometimes it was harder to be among the living.
It was good that she didn't let him know how she felt. She had sensed a
change in him recently. His friendly impersonality had become merely
friendly. It could, with a little encouragement, have developed into
something else. But it wouldn't now. ... |
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DOOR,
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WORLDBy ROBERT
DONALD
LOCKE_Almost any phenomenon can be
used--or act--for good or ill.
Mutation usually brings ill--but
it also brings greatness. Change
can go an... |
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