Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volumen1Nicol, 1803 - 424 páginas |
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... probably imagined that he saw traces of a Gothic etymology in words which were , in fact , purely French ; while Mr. Tyrwhitt , being misled by his own glossary of obso- lete words ( in which the two languages are pretty nearly balanced ) ...
... probably imagined that he saw traces of a Gothic etymology in words which were , in fact , purely French ; while Mr. Tyrwhitt , being misled by his own glossary of obso- lete words ( in which the two languages are pretty nearly balanced ) ...
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... probably be very different ; their respective schemes of grammar will have been formed on different analogies ; and , consequently , the number of declensions and conjugations result- ing from a mixture of the two would be almost ...
... probably be very different ; their respective schemes of grammar will have been formed on different analogies ; and , consequently , the number of declensions and conjugations result- ing from a mixture of the two would be almost ...
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... poetry preserved by Hickes any very studied attempts at alliteration ( a species of ornament probably introduced by the Danes ) , nor the embellishment of rhyme , nor a metre depending on a fixed and determinate number of syllables [ 11 ] .
... poetry preserved by Hickes any very studied attempts at alliteration ( a species of ornament probably introduced by the Danes ) , nor the embellishment of rhyme , nor a metre depending on a fixed and determinate number of syllables [ 11 ] .
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... the fourteenth century . The reader will probably hear with some surprize , that this singular instance of critical inge- nuity was the composition of an Eton school - boy . AN ODE ON ATHELSTAN'S VICTORY , From Two MSS . [ 13 ]
... the fourteenth century . The reader will probably hear with some surprize , that this singular instance of critical inge- nuity was the composition of an Eton school - boy . AN ODE ON ATHELSTAN'S VICTORY , From Two MSS . [ 13 ]
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... Boethius gives plegian , to brandish . 3 Gebleow , Rushworth Gloss . John . xx . 22 . This probably is an error for ythe , the common word for waves . Fife lagon On tham campstede Cyningas uinga Swordum aswefede . [ 21 ]
... Boethius gives plegian , to brandish . 3 Gebleow , Rushworth Gloss . John . xx . 22 . This probably is an error for ythe , the common word for waves . Fife lagon On tham campstede Cyningas uinga Swordum aswefede . [ 21 ]
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