The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 26
... centuries . The office of BreTWALDA , a kind of elective chieftainship of all Britain , was held by several ... century and a half the northern part of the island was distinguished by the growth of a native Christian literature ...
... centuries . The office of BreTWALDA , a kind of elective chieftainship of all Britain , was held by several ... century and a half the northern part of the island was distinguished by the growth of a native Christian literature ...
Pagina 27
... century as the time when the Beowulf received those last superficial touches which still arrest the reader's eye as masking or softening the heathen- dom of the poem . Alfred was a lover of this old national poetry . With the mention of ...
... century as the time when the Beowulf received those last superficial touches which still arrest the reader's eye as masking or softening the heathen- dom of the poem . Alfred was a lover of this old national poetry . With the mention of ...
Pagina 28
... century a great revolu- tion occurred . Northumbria and Mercia fell into the hands of the heathen Danes , and culture was obliterated in those parts which had hitherto been most enlightened . It was Alfred's first care , after he had ...
... century a great revolu- tion occurred . Northumbria and Mercia fell into the hands of the heathen Danes , and culture was obliterated in those parts which had hitherto been most enlightened . It was Alfred's first care , after he had ...
Pagina 29
... 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 the habit to suppose that this phenomenon is ...
... 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 the habit to suppose that this phenomenon is ...
Pagina 37
... century : -- ac Ærest mon sceal God lufian ... Ne sceal mon mann slean ælcne mann mon sceal a weorþian . and ne sceal nan mann don oðrum þæt he nelle þæt him mon do . First , we must love God ... we must not slay man but every ... man ...
... century : -- ac Ærest mon sceal God lufian ... Ne sceal mon mann slean ælcne mann mon sceal a weorþian . and ne sceal nan mann don oðrum þæt he nelle þæt him mon do . First , we must love God ... we must not slay man but every ... man ...
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