Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volume 1Nicol, 1803 - 424 pages |
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... common characters instead of the Saxon ; and a literal translation is added , for the purpose of shew- ing the variety of inversions in which the Saxon poets so much delighted . But as such a transla- tion is very ill calculated to ...
... common characters instead of the Saxon ; and a literal translation is added , for the purpose of shew- ing the variety of inversions in which the Saxon poets so much delighted . But as such a transla- tion is very ill calculated to ...
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... common term for a train , and the Saxons sometimes added , frequently omitted , the m final ; and in English tier , as tier of guns , a row , a long line of ancestors . 5 The marches of Wales and the North of England eluci- date this ...
... common term for a train , and the Saxons sometimes added , frequently omitted , the m final ; and in English tier , as tier of guns , a row , a long line of ancestors . 5 The marches of Wales and the North of England eluci- date this ...
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... common terms for portion or lot , synonimous with the modern deal . 7 This word corresponds with cyn , genus , and certainly the knees of Gibson conveys no appropriate idea . 8 The Latin latro . • Each whence , literally . 10 Geall is ...
... common terms for portion or lot , synonimous with the modern deal . 7 This word corresponds with cyn , genus , and certainly the knees of Gibson conveys no appropriate idea . 8 The Latin latro . • Each whence , literally . 10 Geall is ...
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... translation of 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 ]
... translation of 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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... common term for voice , even in Chaucer . » The modern warred , engaged in waging war . Vide weared , Lye's Dictionary . 3 Cread , a crowd , Lye ; here used as a verb . Utgewat on feolene 33 flod , " Feorh generede . [ 23 ]
... common term for voice , even in Chaucer . » The modern warred , engaged in waging war . Vide weared , Lye's Dictionary . 3 Cread , a crowd , Lye ; here used as a verb . Utgewat on feolene 33 flod , " Feorh generede . [ 23 ]
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