Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volume 1Nicol, 1803 - 424 pages |
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... introduced into the language , were by no means accompanied by a correspondent number of new and distinctive signs , because the French or Latin alphabet was already familiar to the Saxons , who had adopted many of its letters , on ...
... introduced into the language , were by no means accompanied by a correspondent number of new and distinctive signs , because the French or Latin alphabet was already familiar to the Saxons , who had adopted many of its letters , on ...
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... 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 ] .
... 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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... introduction into Latin can only be conjectured , it is not more absurd to ascribe it to some northern proselyte , desirous of bestowing on the learned language an ornament which he admired in his own , than to suppose it was invented ...
... introduction into Latin can only be conjectured , it is not more absurd to ascribe it to some northern proselyte , desirous of bestowing on the learned language an ornament which he admired in his own , than to suppose it was invented ...
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... introduce the Norman in its place ; and this has been so often repeated , that Mr. Tyr- whitt has thought it necessary to refute the assertion by the authority of Ordericus Vitalis , a contem- porary historian , who tells us , that ...
... introduce the Norman in its place ; and this has been so often repeated , that Mr. Tyr- whitt has thought it necessary to refute the assertion by the authority of Ordericus Vitalis , a contem- porary historian , who tells us , that ...
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... introduced a code of laws which placed his power on a military basis ; and he introduced it in the language in which it was originally compiled , and which was familiar to that army to which he looked for his security . By encouraging ...
... introduced a code of laws which placed his power on a military basis ; and he introduced it in the language in which it was originally compiled , and which was familiar to that army to which he looked for his security . By encouraging ...
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