The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 18
... poetry we find the old highways called by the suggestive name of mil - padas , the mile - paths . CORNER , a troop ... poetic word for woman , is most likely the Latin mulier ; and FÆMNE , a prose word for the same , is from the Latin ...
... poetry we find the old highways called by the suggestive name of mil - padas , the mile - paths . CORNER , a troop ... poetic word for woman , is most likely the Latin mulier ; and FÆMNE , a prose word for the same , is from the Latin ...
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 of our race devoted his life to the vocation to which he had been mysteriously called . And if something of the legendary hangs over his personal history , this only shows how strongly his poetry had stirred the imagination of his ...
... poet of our race devoted his life to the vocation to which he had been mysteriously called . And if something of the legendary hangs over his personal history , this only shows how strongly his poetry had stirred the imagination of his ...
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 30
... to A.D. 1066. These figures represent also the interval at which Saxon literature was strongest ; but its duration exceeds these limits at either end . We have poetry , laws , and annals before 880 30 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
... to A.D. 1066. These figures represent also the interval at which Saxon literature was strongest ; but its duration exceeds these limits at either end . We have poetry , laws , and annals before 880 30 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
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