Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley1883 |
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... written after that time , spelling of words still current will be brought into agreement with the present usage , whenever that can be done without injury to rhyme , metre , or sense ; and many notes will help the interpretation of the ...
... written after that time , spelling of words still current will be brought into agreement with the present usage , whenever that can be done without injury to rhyme , metre , or sense ; and many notes will help the interpretation of the ...
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... written there , " I will thee lead the way . To follow me make speed . " 1 These are the first lines of the original . May is the month of the sun in Taurus : - " A Tauro torrida lampade Cynthii Fundente jacula ferventis radii ...
... written there , " I will thee lead the way . To follow me make speed . " 1 These are the first lines of the original . May is the month of the sun in Taurus : - " A Tauro torrida lampade Cynthii Fundente jacula ferventis radii ...
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... written in the language of our country . literature , the First English ( or Anglo - Saxon ) was , for about four centuries , a language nearly as fixed as the English of the present day . Modification of this by the introduction of new ...
... written in the language of our country . literature , the First English ( or Anglo - Saxon ) was , for about four centuries , a language nearly as fixed as the English of the present day . Modification of this by the introduction of new ...
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... written with the modified g that is now y , is thus meta- morphose into ze , so that we have ze , zoure , and other such words as never Englishman or Scotchman wrote . In printing old English in these volumes I represent the sign of the ...
... written with the modified g that is now y , is thus meta- morphose into ze , so that we have ze , zoure , and other such words as never Englishman or Scotchman wrote . In printing old English in these volumes I represent the sign of the ...
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... written so , and the g between two weak vowels softened to the y in " " say . " -Boute . First English " butan , " without , as in the motto of the Macintoshes : " Touch not the cat but a glove . " - Were . First English ' ware ...
... written so , and the g between two weak vowels softened to the y in " " say . " -Boute . First English " butan , " without , as in the motto of the Macintoshes : " Touch not the cat but a glove . " - Were . First English ' ware ...
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battle beauty Ben Jonson bold born breast Bryneich Calais called Celts Chaucer cheer Cymric dead dear death delight doth dread Earl eclogue ellés England English Euphuism eyes Faerie Queene fair fame father fear French gentle give grace Greensleeves hand hast hath hear heart heaven honour Icelandic King lady land Latin light lines Little John live look Lord maid mind Mirror for Magistrates Muse ne'er never night nought o'er pain Piers Plowman play pleasure poem poet poor praise pray pride Prince Queen quoth reign rhyme Robin Robin Hood sense shepherd sight sing Sir Cleges sith slain song sonnets sorrow soul sound Spenser stanzas sweet tears tell thee thine thing thou art thought Timor mortis conturbat true unto verse virtue wife wise wood word wrote young youth