... as lingua Romanica. From its adverb Romanice comes the noun "Romance", applied first to old French (romanz), then to Provencal (romanco) and Spanish (romance), later still to the other Latin tongues. The word, from meaning the French vernacular, came to denote also the fictitious stories in verse or, afterwards, in prose that used to get composed in that vernacular. From denoting "fiction" ...
... native powers in order to learn as best it could how to arrive at a firm and straightforward expression of thought in a just, well-harmonised, precise and lucid speech; an inborn gift in all the Latin tongues, in a half-Teutonic speech attacked by the Celtic richness of imagination this power had to be acquired even at a cost. But the sacrifice made was immense and entailed much effort of recovery in ...
... of these profoundest things would be possible. A nearer significant imaging of them would be close to the hand here than could easily be achieved without much new fashioning of language in the Latin tongues whose speech has been cast in the mould of a clear Page 63 or high intellectuality rather than into the native utterance of imaginative vision adventuring beyond the normal bounds of ...
... a perfect beauty of rhythm. But with the Renaissance came a new impulse, a new influence; an enthusiasm was vividly felt by many for the greatness of structure and achievement of the Greek and Latin tongues—an achievement far surpassing anything done in the mediaeval Romance languages—and a desire arose to bring this greatness of structure and achievement into English poetry. As Chaucer by the success ...
... either vowel or consonant according to usage. R as a vowel has survived in the vowel ṛ , l as a separate vowel has perished, but its semivowel value survives in the metrical peculiarity of the Latin tongue of which a faint trace survives in Sanskrit, by which l & r in a conjunct consonant may or may not, at will, affect the quantity of the preceding syllable. Page 581 I shall consider ...
... thought necessary as an aid to his poem. He was construct-ing a Body of Doctrine from the Scriptures, compiling a History of England, collecting materials for a Thesaurus or Dictionary of the Latin tongue. Every day he pursued his tasks with the use of several assistants whom he kept near him. Each afternoon he also made it almost a fixed practice to hear music, vocal or instrumental. And in the... think of a supreme artist in verse on a colossal scale, we at once name Virgil and Milton together. Yet they are worlds apart in their methods. Virgil is indeed a magician of meaningful phrases in Latin, phrases of exquisite sense and sound, but he got his effects after long exertion. He made the rough draft of seven or nine lines every morning and spent the whole day revising and refining them. ...
... polished or correct and designating the literary tongue of ancient India as distinct from the vernaculars used by the women & the common people and because my scope is somewhat wider than the classical tongue of the northern Hindus. I base my conclusions on the evidence of the Sanscrit language helped out by those parts of the Greek, Latin & Tamil tongues which are cognate to the word-families of Sanscrit... really quite sure that we know what constitutes community or diversity of origin between two different languages—so different for instance as Latin and Sanscrit, Sanscrit & Tamil, Tamil and Latin? Latin, Greek & Sanscrit are supposed to be sister Aryan tongues, Tamil is set apart as of other & Dravidian origin. If we enquire on what foundation this distinct & contrary treatment rests, we shall find... the Aryan tongues. If it were not for the old Sanscrit writings, if only the ordinary Sanscrit colloquial vocables had survived who could be certain of these connections? or who could confidently affiliate colloquial Bengali with its ordinary domestic terms to Latin any more certainly than Telugu or Tamil? How then are we to be sure that the dissonance of Tamil itself with the Aryan tongues is not due ...
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