English Literature: From the beginning of the age of Henry VIII, by Richard GarnettMacmillan, 1903 |
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Pàgina ix
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 ...
Pàgina 1
... 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 ...
Pàgina 2
... 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 ...
Pàgina 3
... 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 ...
Pàgina 4
... 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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Passatges populars
Pàgina 206 - 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.
Pàgina 124 - Per 1' altru' impoverir se' ricca e grande ; Poi che di mal oprar tanto ti giova : Nido di tradimenti ; in cui si cova Quanto mal per lo mondo oggi si spande ; Di vin serva, di letti e di vivande, In cui lussuria fa 1' ultima prova. Per le camere tue fanciulle e vecchi Vanno trescando, e Belzebub in mezzo, Co' mantici, e col foco, e con gli specchi.
Pàgina 206 - 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 206 - 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.
Pàgina 294 - Then he fell on his knee ; A boon, a boon, cries Little John, Master, I beg of thee. What is that boon, quoth Robin Hood, Little John, thou begs of me?
Pàgina 278 - 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.
Pàgina 298 - I think not nay, but, as ye say, It is no maiden's lore : But love may make me for your sake, As...
Pàgina 339 - 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.
Pàgina 248 - 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.