Why we should read by S. P. B. Mais

Author:S. P. B. Mais [Mais, S. P. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9789353708252
Google: GK-VxgEACAAJ
Publisher: Alpha Editions
Published: 2019-06-15T04:18:10+00:00

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PART III

BOOKS ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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[Pg 171]

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A HISTORY OF MODERN COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH—BY H. C. WYLD

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I purposely refrained from saying "Philology" because it has a frightening sound. There is a feeling that the study of literature is directly hostile to a study of Philology, whereas the truth is that, as Professor Wyld says, "Rightly interpreted, language is a mirror of the minds and manners of those who speak it," a point of view which cannot be sufficiently emphasised.

In the old days the study of language meant the chasing of umlaut and the tracking down of ablaut; to-day we find ourselves enticed into the study of modern colloquial English in these words:

"Together let us beat this ample field,

Try what the open, what the covert yield;

The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore,

Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar;

Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,

And catch the manners living as they rise."

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