The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 20
... seems to require it . Such are , for instance , Kent , London , Gloucester . We will add a few words that have a fair Keltic reputation , basket , bran , breeches , clout , crag , crock , manor , paddock , wicket . It is very probable ...
... seems to require it . Such are , for instance , Kent , London , Gloucester . We will add a few words that have a fair Keltic reputation , basket , bran , breeches , clout , crag , crock , manor , paddock , wicket . It is very probable ...
Pagina 21
... applied to the seed - bags of plants , as pease - cod . This seems to be the Welsh cwd . The puff - ball is in Welsh cwd - y - mwg , a bag of smoke . Owen Pughe quotes this Welsh adage : - ' Egor dy OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 21.
... applied to the seed - bags of plants , as pease - cod . This seems to be the Welsh cwd . The puff - ball is in Welsh cwd - y - mwg , a bag of smoke . Owen Pughe quotes this Welsh adage : - ' Egor dy OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 21.
Pagina 22
... seem to have evidence of the influence of the Druids , as still surviving within the Saxon period . Out of this word DRY , a verb was made , BE - DRIAN , to bewitch or fascinate . Thus we read in the homily on Swiðun : - Sume swefna ...
... seem to have evidence of the influence of the Druids , as still surviving within the Saxon period . Out of this word DRY , a verb was made , BE - DRIAN , to bewitch or fascinate . Thus we read in the homily on Swiðun : - Sume swefna ...
Pagina 28
... seem to enter upon a compara- tively modern era , and to quit the obscurity of the pre - Danish period . Wessex , or the country of the West Saxons , be- comes the arena of our narrative henceforth , and we have no occasion to notice ...
... seem to enter upon a compara- tively modern era , and to quit the obscurity of the pre - Danish period . Wessex , or the country of the West Saxons , be- comes the arena of our narrative henceforth , and we have no occasion to notice ...
Pagina 29
... 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 sufficiently accounted for by the introduction of scholars from ...
... 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 sufficiently accounted for by the introduction of scholars from ...
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