Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 6British Academy, 1976 - Humanities |
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... original signification is not easy to fix . I take it however to be the etymological equivalent of the Latin adjective saevus ' roused to fierceness ' , but in Old Latin saevus also meant ' great ' , a meaning which Walde thinks the ...
... original signification is not easy to fix . I take it however to be the etymological equivalent of the Latin adjective saevus ' roused to fierceness ' , but in Old Latin saevus also meant ' great ' , a meaning which Walde thinks the ...
Page 404
... original seed ? If this is so , it will lead us to some interesting conclusions . To begin with , then , can we discover the original myth out of which the Greek Orestes - saga has grown ? ( I do not deny the possible presence of an ...
... original seed ? If this is so , it will lead us to some interesting conclusions . To begin with , then , can we discover the original myth out of which the Greek Orestes - saga has grown ? ( I do not deny the possible presence of an ...
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... original in Malory or a saga . Blank verse in Tennyson's hands , in Morte d'Arthur or The Holy Grail , tolls slowly ' . This is the only thing that can be said against his noble passage from the Iliad . Every step in the action is ...
... original in Malory or a saga . Blank verse in Tennyson's hands , in Morte d'Arthur or The Holy Grail , tolls slowly ' . This is the only thing that can be said against his noble passage from the Iliad . Every step in the action is ...
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