In short, I know not whether any othergrammarian has ever given what may justly be called a definition, of any one of them.
And what can be more absurd than for a grammarian to insist upon forming a great parcel of these strange and crabbed words for which he can quote no good authority?
What grammarian supposes whom after than to be "in the objective case absolute?
Why must a grammarian discriminate between idioms, or peculiarities, and the common mode of expression?
What grammarian approves of such expressions as, "Two and two is four?
John the Grammarian to the court of Baghdad must be rejected as a fiction irreconcilable with fact.
I only wish to call attention to the rules of the grammarian as a particularly well defined example of the supremacy of Good Use in all matters relating to language and its employment in literature.
It is because the general consent has decided that a certain form of the verb shall be plural that the grammarian declares it to be in that number.
The inability of the grammarian to dictate to custom is made especially evident when we consider that thing more subtle than syntax and in composition no less important, which we call Idiom.
His poems are lost, but an idea of them can be gained from the Chrestomathy written by Proclus the Neo-Platonist of the 5th century or by a grammarian of the same name in the time of the Antonines.
An epitome of the great work of Herodian on general prosody in twenty books, wrongly attributed to Arcadius, is probably the work of Theodosius of Alexandria or a grammarian named Aristodemus.
Arthemedorus the grammarian lost his wits by the unexpected sight of a crocodile, Laurentius 7.
But if I shall admire the bare exposition, what else have I made of myself than a grammarian instead of a philosopher, save, indeed, that the exposition is of Chrysippus and not of Homer?
But this is exactly what Browning has done, nay, he has made this grammarian exactly the same kind of hero as a dashing cavalry officer leading a forlorn hope.
I say that Browning has given hisGrammarian not only courage and heroism, but the reckless, dashing, magnificent bravery of a cavalry leader.
Browning's Grammarian did not take up scholarship as a last resort.
Even a verb like "to love," perhaps the most pliant of all, resists some of the modifications to which a Turkish grammarian is fain to subject it.
In doing this, the grammarian had to alter the strict acceptation of many of the terms which he borrowed from the philosopher, and he had to coin others before he could lay hold of all the facts of language even in the roughest manner.
Rashi was as clever a grammarian as was possible in his time and in his country.
Without doubt he knew the grammarian Judah Ibn Koreish[49] only by the citations from him.
A grammarian Diotimus of Adramyttium is mentioned in an epigram by Aratus of Soli (who fl.
Constantinus Cephalas, a grammarian unknown except from the Palatine MS.
In the reign of Hadrian the grammarian Diogenianus of Heraclea edited an Anthology of epigrams,[16] but nothing is known of it beyond the name.
The different ways of making in common speech the equivalent of a general name logically are for the grammarian to consider.
At any rate such an implication exists, whether it is the function of the Grammarian or the Logician to expound it.
The identity of AElfric the grammarianwith AElfric archbishop of York was also discussed by Henry Wharton, in Anglia Sacra (1691, vol.
Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known.
Professor Rhys, who at one time considered runes and ogam to be connected, now thinks that ogam was the invention of a grammarian in South Wales who was familiar with Latin letters.
Dunash appears to have been wealthy, and was thus able to be freer and more independent than the grammarianof Tortosa.
David Kimchi was the last exegete and grammarian for a long space of time.
The former, already an old man and at the zenith of his fame as a grammarian and expositor of the Bible, was an enthusiastic admirer of Maimuni, and a friend of free investigation.
Menachem ben Saruk, first grammarian and one of the founders of Judaeo-Spanish culture, 215.
No Roman grammarian mentions more than one sound as belonging to g, although they treat of the letters minutely.
Now no grammarian ever mentions more than one sound for Latin c.
Apollodorus blamed the poet Callimachus, who was a grammarian and ought to have known better, for his contention that Gaudus, i.
It may be Nonius Marcellus, an obscure Roman Grammarian of uncertain date (between the IInd and Vth centuries A.
Footnote: Tryphon of Alexandria, a Greek Grammarian of the time of Augustus.
We have buried our Grammarian upon his peak, fronting the sunrise.
On the other hand, if the musician or grammarian blunders, the intellect within him has not been contradicted, seeing that he knew no better: the habit of grammar or music has not been violated, but has failed to cover the case.
Being a Revised Text of The Ecloga of theGrammarian Phrynichus.
For in such a language usage is so well settled in almost every particular as to enable the grammarian to say positively what is right and what is wrong.
If two forms or constructions are in good use, thegrammarian must admit them both.
Professor Weber, land the grammarianright in the middle of the second century of the Christian era!
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