Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, المجلد 1H. Washbourne, 1845 |
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... probably imagined that he saw traces of a Gothic etymo- logy 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 ...
... probably imagined that he saw traces of a Gothic etymo- logy 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 ...
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... probably be convinced , that these changes in the Saxon consist solely in the extinction of its ancient grammatical inflections , and that they are exactly similar to the alterations by which the Latin was gradually transformed into the ...
... probably be convinced , that these changes in the Saxon consist solely in the extinction of its ancient grammatical inflections , and that they are exactly similar to the alterations by which the Latin was gradually transformed into the ...
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... probably introduced by the Danes ) , nor the embel- lishment of rhyme , nor a metre depending on a fixed and determinate number of syllables , nor that marked atten- tion to their quantity which Hickes supposed to have constituted the ...
... probably introduced by the Danes ) , nor the embel- lishment of rhyme , nor a metre depending on a fixed and determinate number of syllables , nor that marked atten- tion to their quantity which Hickes supposed to have constituted the ...
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... of the fourteenth cen- tury . The reader will probably hear with some surprise , that this singular instance of critical ingenuity was the composition of an Eton school - boy . 10 An Ode on Athelstan's Wictory , From Two MSS ON LANGUAGE .
... of the fourteenth cen- tury . The reader will probably hear with some surprise , that this singular instance of critical ingenuity was the composition of an Eton school - boy . 10 An Ode on Athelstan's Wictory , From Two MSS ON LANGUAGE .
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... probably is an error for ythe , the common word for waves . 7 Swebban , Cædmon ; b , f , and p , are letters of the same organ , and asurpan , swept away , Lye . The Greek , π , ß , O. 8 Unrim , unnumbered , from innumerus ; n , r , m ...
... probably is an error for ythe , the common word for waves . 7 Swebban , Cædmon ; b , f , and p , are letters of the same organ , and asurpan , swept away , Lye . The Greek , π , ß , O. 8 Unrim , unnumbered , from innumerus ; n , r , m ...
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الصفحة 265 - And proffered me bread, with ale, and wine Ribs of beef, both fat and full fine ; A fair cloth they gan for to spread, But, wanting money, I might not be sped. Then unto London I did me hie, Of all the land it beareth the price ; "Hot peascods!" one began to cry, " Strawberry ripe, and cherries in the rise!
الصفحة 267 - I saw where hung mine owne hood, That I had lost among the throng ; To buy my own hood I thought it wrong : I knew it well, as I did my creed ; But, for lack of money, I could not speed. The taverner took me by the sleeve,
الصفحة 245 - As for the time (though I of mirthis food Might have no more) to look it did me good.
الصفحة 263 - ... and a good round log under their heads instead of a bolster or pillow. If it were so that our fathers — or the good man of the house had within seven years after his marriage purchased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a stack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town...
الصفحة 265 - I gan me drawn, Where much people I saw for to stand ; One offered me velvet, silk, and lawn, Another he taketh me by the hand, "Here is Paris thread, the finest in the land!
الصفحة 138 - ... we shall probably be of opinion, that his majesty was either totally insensible of our author's poetical talents, or at least had no mind to encourage him in the cultivation or exercise of them.
الصفحة 251 - In her was youth, beauty, with humble port, Bounty, richesse, and womanly feature ; God better knows than my pen can report, Wisdom, largesse ,t estate,! and cunning § sure, In every point so guided her measure, In word, in deed, in shape, in countenance, That nature might no more her child advance.
الصفحة 272 - It shall be covered with velvet red, And cloths of fine gold all about your head ; With damask white and azure blue Well diapered with lilies new.
الصفحة 263 - Pillows (said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the...
الصفحة 60 - ... to indicate that little more than the substitution of a few French for the present Saxon words, was now necessary, to produce an exact resemblance with that Anglo-Norman, or English, of which we possess a few specimens, supposed to have been written in the early part of the thirteenth century.