The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 18
... poetic word for woman , is most likely the Latin mulier ; and FÆMNE , a prose word for the same , is from the Latin fæmina . ' Orchard , ' in Saxon ORT - GEARD , is a tautological compound of the Latin hortus or ortus , a garden , and ...
... poetic word for woman , is most likely the Latin mulier ; and FÆMNE , a prose word for the same , is from the Latin fæmina . ' Orchard , ' in Saxon ORT - GEARD , is a tautological compound of the Latin hortus or ortus , a garden , and ...
Pagina 21
... poetic name for the dog - rose , and which has such a French air , due to its having been adopted from the poetry of the Fabliaux , is very probably a British word . With strong probability also may we add to this botanical list the ...
... poetic name for the dog - rose , and which has such a French air , due to its having been adopted from the poetry of the Fabliaux , is very probably a British word . With strong probability also may we add to this botanical list the ...
Pagina 26
... poet Cædmon , who by divine inspiration was gifted with the power of song , for the express purpose of rendering the Scripture narratives into popular verse . The extant poems of the Creation and Fall and Redemption , which are ...
... poet Cædmon , who by divine inspiration was gifted with the power of song , for the express purpose of rendering the Scripture narratives into popular verse . The extant poems of the Creation and Fall and Redemption , which are ...
Pagina 28
... poet in whose works the Scottish language first displays its definite form , is Dunbar , a younger contem- porary of Chaucer . From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries there was a thriving national literature in the Anglian ...
... poet in whose works the Scottish language first displays its definite form , is Dunbar , a younger contem- porary of Chaucer . From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries there was a thriving national literature in the Anglian ...
Pagina 46
... poetic form the legends of British history , and which exceeds 30,000 lines , has been splendidly edited , with an English translation , by Sir Frederic Madden , 1847. One of the great excellences of this edition is the helpful nature ...
... poetic form the legends of British history , and which exceeds 30,000 lines , has been splendidly edited , with an English translation , by Sir Frederic Madden , 1847. One of the great excellences of this edition is the helpful nature ...
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