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... French Brittany . The Gadhelic into Gaelic , still spoken in the Scottish Highlands . Irish , or Erse , spoken in Ireland . Manx , spoken in the Isle of Man . Such are the first people and dialects to be considered HISTORICAL SCOPE OF ...
... French Brittany . The Gadhelic into Gaelic , still spoken in the Scottish Highlands . Irish , or Erse , spoken in Ireland . Manx , spoken in the Isle of Man . Such are the first people and dialects to be considered HISTORICAL SCOPE OF ...
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... French Brittany . Great numbers were destroyed . They left few traces of their institutions and their language . Thus the Saxon was established in its strength , and has since remained the strongest element of English ethnography . IV ...
... French Brittany . Great numbers were destroyed . They left few traces of their institutions and their language . Thus the Saxon was established in its strength , and has since remained the strongest element of English ethnography . IV ...
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... French , had been very much . favored by educated Englishmen ; and when William con- quered England , he tried to supplant the Saxon entirely . In this he was not successful ; but the two languages were inter- fused and amalgamated , so ...
... French , had been very much . favored by educated Englishmen ; and when William con- quered England , he tried to supplant the Saxon entirely . In this he was not successful ; but the two languages were inter- fused and amalgamated , so ...
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... French words ; inflections had been lost ; new ideas , facts , and objects had sprung up , requiring new names . The dying Saxon literature was over- shadowed by the strength and growth of the Norman , and it had no royal patron and ...
... French words ; inflections had been lost ; new ideas , facts , and objects had sprung up , requiring new names . The dying Saxon literature was over- shadowed by the strength and growth of the Norman , and it had no royal patron and ...
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... and created many which the Saxons had not . In place of the Saxon English , which , however vigorous , was greatly wanting in what may be called the vocabulary of pro- 1 gress , the Norman French , drawing constantly upon 45.
... and created many which the Saxons had not . In place of the Saxon English , which , however vigorous , was greatly wanting in what may be called the vocabulary of pro- 1 gress , the Norman French , drawing constantly upon 45.
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Page 152 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 179 - O run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet; Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet And join thy voice unto the angel quire, From out his secret altar touched with hallowed fire.
Page 321 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 326 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 409 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 189 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 417 - The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived...
Page 327 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; 3 till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 186 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 193 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.