Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volumen1Nicol, 1803 - 424 páginas |
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... never fail to recognize a kindred dialect on their arrival at St. Petersburgh . Many more examples might be adduced to shew that the language of a country is never destroyed , but by the annihilation of its inhabitants , nor materially ...
... never fail to recognize a kindred dialect on their arrival at St. Petersburgh . Many more examples might be adduced to shew that the language of a country is never destroyed , but by the annihilation of its inhabitants , nor materially ...
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... white fish of the brooks , The greedy gos - hawk , The grey deer , And wolf wild . Never was there wail more In this island , That builds his house in the loftiest woods . ( Æfre gita Folces gefylled ) Beforan thyssum Swordes ecgum [ 29 ]
... white fish of the brooks , The greedy gos - hawk , The grey deer , And wolf wild . Never was there wail more In this island , That builds his house in the loftiest woods . ( Æfre gita Folces gefylled ) Beforan thyssum Swordes ecgum [ 29 ]
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... never wraught . Maille was split , and helmis roven , The wall of shieldis down they cloven . The Thanis which cold with Edmond fare To meet the fomen well were yare : For it was comen to hem of kynde Hir londis and tresoùrs to fend ...
... never wraught . Maille was split , and helmis roven , The wall of shieldis down they cloven . The Thanis which cold with Edmond fare To meet the fomen well were yare : For it was comen to hem of kynde Hir londis and tresoùrs to fend ...
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... men for their mede , On hir corses for to fede . Sen the Saxonis first come In schippes over the sea - fome , Of the yeres that ben forgone , Greater bataile was never none . 19 CHAPTER II . The same Subject continued . - Account [ 34 ]
... men for their mede , On hir corses for to fede . Sen the Saxonis first come In schippes over the sea - fome , Of the yeres that ben forgone , Greater bataile was never none . 19 CHAPTER II . The same Subject continued . - Account [ 34 ]
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... never was a period when the town of Canterbury would not have furnished a sufficient audience for such an exhibition . This work of Guernes is written in stanzas of five Alex- andrines , all ending with the same rhyme ; a mode of ...
... never was a period when the town of Canterbury would not have furnished a sufficient audience for such an exhibition . This work of Guernes is written in stanzas of five Alex- andrines , all ending with the same rhyme ; a mode of ...
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