Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volume 1Nicol, 1803 - 424 pages |
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... seem that we ought to possess in the various existing glossaries of the Gothic and Romance dialects the means of recovering nearly all the original materials of our language . It is true that these materials , in passing from the parent ...
... seem that we ought to possess in the various existing glossaries of the Gothic and Romance dialects the means of recovering nearly all the original materials of our language . It is true that these materials , in passing from the parent ...
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... an- cestors , finding it absolutely impossible to adopt any consistent mode of orthography , fairly left it to the discretion or caprice of the several writers and transcribers . Chaucer , it seems , was perfectly aware of this [ 9 ]
... an- cestors , finding it absolutely impossible to adopt any consistent mode of orthography , fairly left it to the discretion or caprice of the several writers and transcribers . Chaucer , it seems , was perfectly aware of this [ 9 ]
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George Ellis. Chaucer , it seems , was perfectly aware of this inconvenience . In his address to his book he " And , for there is so great diversitè says , " In English , and in writing of our tongue , " So pray I to God that none mis ...
George Ellis. Chaucer , it seems , was perfectly aware of this inconvenience . In his address to his book he " And , for there is so great diversitè says , " In English , and in writing of our tongue , " So pray I to God that none mis ...
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... seems to have resembled those Runic odes so admirably imitated by Mr. Gray : but its mechanism and scheme of versifica- tion , notwithstanding all the pains which Hickes has employed in attempting to investigate them , are still ...
... seems to have resembled those Runic odes so admirably imitated by Mr. Gray : but its mechanism and scheme of versifica- tion , notwithstanding all the pains which Hickes has employed in attempting to investigate them , are still ...
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... seem to have been a sort of flute . 10 Another sort of drum . Vide Sir J. 11 Dulcimers . A sort of trumpet . 8 Probably some variety of the harp . 9 Drums . Hawkins , Hist . Mus . Vol . II . 284 , 5 . 12 The monochord . 13 Cymbals . 15 ...
... seem to have been a sort of flute . 10 Another sort of drum . Vide Sir J. 11 Dulcimers . A sort of trumpet . 8 Probably some variety of the harp . 9 Drums . Hawkins , Hist . Mus . Vol . II . 284 , 5 . 12 The monochord . 13 Cymbals . 15 ...
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