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Richard Garnett. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS Duality of English Speech - The Celt , the Roman , and the Saxon - Christianity and Anglo- Saxon Literature - Pope Gregory the Great - Pre - Christian Literature - Widsith ...
Richard Garnett. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS Duality of English Speech - The Celt , the Roman , and the Saxon - Christianity and Anglo- Saxon Literature - Pope Gregory the Great - Pre - Christian Literature - Widsith ...
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... Speech which it differs from all the other leading languages of Europe , and can only be paralleled with those tongues of Eastern and Western Asia which have respectively become pervaded with Chinese or Arabic influence . All European ...
... Speech which it differs from all the other leading languages of Europe , and can only be paralleled with those tongues of Eastern and Western Asia which have respectively become pervaded with Chinese or Arabic influence . All European ...
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... speech represent the national mind . The mere fact of a spirit of compromise pervading our language , litera- ture , and institutions , suffices to show that Celtic influence cannot be very potent in any of them . Attempts have been ...
... speech represent the national mind . The mere fact of a spirit of compromise pervading our language , litera- ture , and institutions , suffices to show that Celtic influence cannot be very potent in any of them . Attempts have been ...
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... speech would depart with them . Two languages must have existed side by side in Romanised Britain - Latin as the language of refined society , British as the speech of the common people . The former would naturally die out in the ...
... speech would depart with them . Two languages must have existed side by side in Romanised Britain - Latin as the language of refined society , British as the speech of the common people . The former would naturally die out in the ...
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... speech to the Latin nations of the Continent , we should have been far more obnoxious to foreign influences than has been the case ; if , on the other hand , our speech had been Celtic , we should have been cut off from the majority of ...
... speech to the Latin nations of the Continent , we should have been far more obnoxious to foreign influences than has been the case ; if , on the other hand , our speech had been Celtic , we should have been cut off from the majority of ...
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Page 214 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: "for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 350 - With eyes cast up into the maidens' tower, And easy sighs, such as folk draw in love; The stately seats, the ladies bright of hue, The dances short, long tales of great delight; With words and looks that tigers could but rue, Where each of us did plead the other's right...
Page 214 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
Page 77 - We must now proceed to the two great poems which were produced at the end of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century.
Page 286 - Worship all ye that lovers be this May, For of your bliss the kalends are begun, And sing with us, away, winter away, Come, summer come, the sweet season and sun.
Page 350 - Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth. Our tender limbs, that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise ; Recording soft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.
Page 347 - My lute, awake, perform the last Labour that thou and I shall waste, And end that I have now begun, And when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.
Page 347 - The rocks do not so cruelly Repulse the waves continually, As she my suit and affection: So that I am past remedy; Whereby my lute and I have done. Proud of the spoil...
Page 166 - And with that word, naked, with ful good herte, Among the serpents in the pit she sterte, And ther she chees to han hir buryinge. Anoon the neddres gonne...
Page 256 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.