LAMB
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
LANGUAGE
(See also Linguist, Speech, Words)
And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange
shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent,
T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident
May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows
Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
And don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
L'accent du pays ou Ton est n6 demeure dans
l'esprit et dans le cceur comme dans le langage.
The accent of one's country dwells in the
mind and in the heart as much as in the language.
Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language
spoken by angels.
La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois, Et les fait, la main haute, obfiir i ses lois.
| trans = Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it.
He has strangled
His language in his tears.
You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!
Fie, fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.
There was speech in their dumbness, language
in their very gesture.
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
Don Chaucer, well of English undefyled
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
From purest wells of English undented
None deeper drank than he, the New World's
Child,
Who in the language of their farm field spoke
The wit and wisdom of New England folk.
Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose type of things through all degrees.