The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 16
... Already in the Beowulf we have the adjective formed from eoten , eotenisc , of a sword that had belonged to giants . Professor Nilsson , in his Stone Age ( p . 228 , ed . Lubbock ) , has , with great appear- ance of probability , traced ...
... Already in the Beowulf we have the adjective formed from eoten , eotenisc , of a sword that had belonged to giants . Professor Nilsson , in his Stone Age ( p . 228 , ed . Lubbock ) , has , with great appear- ance of probability , traced ...
Pagina 17
... already in use seem bolder , and more distinct . They enable us to distinguish between Saxon and Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it is not ...
... already in use seem bolder , and more distinct . They enable us to distinguish between Saxon and Anglian ; and they also comprise the united nation under the compound term Anglo - Saxon . As expressive of the dominant power , it is not ...
Pagina 27
... already indicated , in that early and prolonged leadership which was enjoyed by the kingdom of North- humbria in the seventh and eighth centuries . The office of BRETWALDA , a kind of elective chieftainship of all Britain , was held by ...
... already indicated , in that early and prolonged leadership which was enjoyed by the kingdom of North- humbria in the seventh and eighth centuries . The office of BRETWALDA , a kind of elective chieftainship of all Britain , was held by ...
Pagina 55
... having passed into an epithet , went to swell the already overgrown list of vituperations . Rascal , villain , are of the same temper and the same date . Such are a few of the words with which our OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 55.
... having passed into an epithet , went to swell the already overgrown list of vituperations . Rascal , villain , are of the same temper and the same date . Such are a few of the words with which our OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 55.
Pagina 59
... our literary language opened the way for much of west - country style that never could have been admitted unless such an interruption had taken place . It has already been shewn above that the Saxon literary OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 59.
... our literary language opened the way for much of west - country style that never could have been admitted unless such an interruption had taken place . It has already been shewn above that the Saxon literary OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 59.
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