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Pagina 22
But then this word did not come into our language ( probably ) till the twelfth
century . Yet it may have had an obscure existence among us in Saxon times .
Bard is unquestionably British , and so is glen . But then these made their entry
later ...
But then this word did not come into our language ( probably ) till the twelfth
century . Yet it may have had an obscure existence among us in Saxon times .
Bard is unquestionably British , and so is glen . But then these made their entry
later ...
Pagina 26
We gather from the account in Będa , that the practice of making ballads was in a
high state of activity , and also that vernacular poetry was used as a vehicle of
popular instruction in the seventh century in Northumbria . And it is interesting to
...
We gather from the account in Będa , that the practice of making ballads was in a
high state of activity , and also that vernacular poetry was used as a vehicle of
popular instruction in the seventh century in Northumbria . And it is interesting to
...
Pagina 27
For two centuries the northern part of the island had a flourishing Church and a
growing civilisation . ... All this vernacular literature perished under the ravages of
the Danes in the ninth century : but not until the torch of learning had been ...
For two centuries the northern part of the island had a flourishing Church and a
growing civilisation . ... All this vernacular literature perished under the ravages of
the Danes in the ninth century : but not until the torch of learning had been ...
Pagina 28
Wessex , or the country of the West Saxons , becomes the arena of our narrative
henceforth , and we have no occasion to notice Anglian literature again , until the
fifteenth century , when that dialect had shaped itself into a new and distinct ...
Wessex , or the country of the West Saxons , becomes the arena of our narrative
henceforth , and we have no occasion to notice Anglian literature again , until the
fifteenth century , when that dialect had shaped itself into a new and distinct ...
Pagina 29
But with him , that is to say , in the last quarter of the ninth century , Saxon
literature starts up almost full - grown . It seems as if it grew up suddenly , and
reached perfection at a bound without preparation or antecedents . It has been
too much ...
But with him , that is to say , in the last quarter of the ninth century , Saxon
literature starts up almost full - grown . It seems as if it grew up suddenly , and
reached perfection at a bound without preparation or antecedents . It has been
too much ...
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | The Philology of the English Tongue Clarendon Press series |
| Autore | John Earle |
| Editore | Clarendon Press, 1871 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Universitą di Princeton |
| Digitalizzato | 3 mar 2009 |
| Lunghezza | 599 pagine |
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