The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 19
... poetry we find the old highways called by the suggestive name of milpadas , the mile - paths . CARCERN , a prison , is the Latin carcer , with the Saxon word ERN , a building , mingled into the last syllable : TIGOL , a tile , is the ...
... poetry we find the old highways called by the suggestive name of milpadas , the mile - paths . CARCERN , a prison , is the Latin carcer , with the Saxon word ERN , a building , mingled into the last syllable : TIGOL , a tile , is the ...
Pagina 25
... poet of our race devoted his life to the vocation to which he had been mysteriously called . If something of the legendary hangs over his personal history , this only shews 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 . If something of the legendary hangs over his personal history , this only shews how strongly his poetry had stirred the imagination of his ...
Pagina 26
John Earle. that could believe their poet to be divinely called , was the nation to produce poets , and to elevate the genius of their language . Such was the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria , and here it was that our language first ...
John Earle. that could believe their poet to be divinely called , was the nation to produce poets , and to elevate the genius of their language . Such was the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria , and here it was that our language first ...
Pagina 27
... poetry . With the mention of Alfred's name , we enter upon a com- paratively modern era of the language , and quit the obscurity of the pre - Danish period . Wessex , or the country of the West Saxons , becomes the arena of our ...
... poetry . With the mention of Alfred's name , we enter upon a com- paratively modern era of the language , and quit the obscurity of the pre - Danish period . Wessex , or the country of the West Saxons , becomes the arena of our ...
Pagina 31
... poetry , laws , and annals before 880 , and we have large and important continuations of Saxon Chronicles after 1066. Perhaps the most natural date to adopt as the close of Saxon literature would be A.D. 1154 , the year of King ...
... poetry , laws , and annals before 880 , and we have large and important continuations of Saxon Chronicles after 1066. Perhaps the most natural date to adopt as the close of Saxon literature would be A.D. 1154 , the year of King ...
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