A First View of English LiteratureC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... modern English , is unintelligible to us without special study . Anglo- Saxon , or Old English , belongs to the Low - German family of languages , of which Dutch is the best modern representa tive ; and the men who spoke it lived , when ...
... modern English , is unintelligible to us without special study . Anglo- Saxon , or Old English , belongs to the Low - German family of languages , of which Dutch is the best modern representa tive ; and the men who spoke it lived , when ...
الصفحة 12
... modern English . The earliest Celtic words absorbed by the Saxon speech were such as have been preserved in geographical names , such as Oxford and Stratford - on - Avon ( from Celtic Avon , and Ox or Esk , meaning water ) , Holcomb ...
... modern English . The earliest Celtic words absorbed by the Saxon speech were such as have been preserved in geographical names , such as Oxford and Stratford - on - Avon ( from Celtic Avon , and Ox or Esk , meaning water ) , Holcomb ...
الصفحة 13
... modern languages . II . THE LITERATURE OF NORTHUMBRIA The Christianizing of England . The partial union of the Celtic and the Saxon races which took place in England after the Saxon conquest , was to have a great influence upon Eng ...
... modern languages . II . THE LITERATURE OF NORTHUMBRIA The Christianizing of England . The partial union of the Celtic and the Saxon races which took place in England after the Saxon conquest , was to have a great influence upon Eng ...
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... modern nature - poetry . It is pleasant , even if not quite scientific , to think of he Riddles as the youthful work of Cynewulf , since his is the only poet's name that has survived from those obscure and troubled times . The " Phoenix ...
... modern nature - poetry . It is pleasant , even if not quite scientific , to think of he Riddles as the youthful work of Cynewulf , since his is the only poet's name that has survived from those obscure and troubled times . The " Phoenix ...
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... modern world . The fusion was accomplished in a period of about a century and a half . When English first appeared , in 1200 , after its long sleep , it contained almost no French ingredients ; by the middle of the fourteenth century ...
... modern world . The fusion was accomplished in a period of about a century and a half . When English first appeared , in 1200 , after its long sleep , it contained almost no French ingredients ; by the middle of the fourteenth century ...
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