A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest. With Numerous SpecimensGriffin, 1867 - 536 pagina's |
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... nearly akin to the Dutch and the Flemings than we are to the Germans . It may even be doubted if the English language ought not to be regarded as having more of a Scandinavian than of a purely Germanic character , —as , in other words ...
... nearly akin to the Dutch and the Flemings than we are to the Germans . It may even be doubted if the English language ought not to be regarded as having more of a Scandinavian than of a purely Germanic character , —as , in other words ...
Pagina 96
... nearly ten thousand long lines of the work , or nearly twenty thousand as Dr. White prints them , with the fifteen syllables divided into two sections , the one of eight the other of seven syllables , -the latter , which terminates in ...
... nearly ten thousand long lines of the work , or nearly twenty thousand as Dr. White prints them , with the fifteen syllables divided into two sections , the one of eight the other of seven syllables , -the latter , which terminates in ...
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... nearly a century after the first introduction among us of that fashion of writing . Even some of the highest minds did not entirely escape the contagion . If nothing of it is to be found in Spenser or Milton , neither Shakespeare nor ...
... nearly a century after the first introduction among us of that fashion of writing . Even some of the highest minds did not entirely escape the contagion . If nothing of it is to be found in Spenser or Milton , neither Shakespeare nor ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Languages of Modern Europe | 1 |
The Celtic Languages and Literatures | 7 |
Original English commonly called Saxon or AngloSaxon | 15 |
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