Englische Studien, Volumes 29-30O.R. Reisland, 1901 - Comparative linguistics |
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... made use of Guido's name Brixeida . The alteration was no doubt due to some one less scrupulous than the original copyist and anxious to correct what must have seemed , to any acquainted with Chaucer's poem , a mere illiterate mistake ...
... made use of Guido's name Brixeida . The alteration was no doubt due to some one less scrupulous than the original copyist and anxious to correct what must have seemed , to any acquainted with Chaucer's poem , a mere illiterate mistake ...
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... made use of one of these translations , without the relations between his poem and the Historia being thereby affected . M. Aristide Joly suggests that he employed a French translation in verse . Such translation may well have existed ...
... made use of one of these translations , without the relations between his poem and the Historia being thereby affected . M. Aristide Joly suggests that he employed a French translation in verse . Such translation may well have existed ...
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... made use of Benoit's poem . Yet one other slight correspondence between the French and English versions was observed . Guido has a brief description of setting up camp after one of the battles : this the English author greatly enlarges ...
... made use of Benoit's poem . Yet one other slight correspondence between the French and English versions was observed . Guido has a brief description of setting up camp after one of the battles : this the English author greatly enlarges ...
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... made fir in euery a lane That men myght se bothe ner and ferre Queral in eueryche a corner The fires geuen a gret lyght As of hit hadde ben day lyght Mynstralles her pipes hente And alle other of instrumente Thei nakered piped and blew ...
... made fir in euery a lane That men myght se bothe ner and ferre Queral in eueryche a corner The fires geuen a gret lyght As of hit hadde ben day lyght Mynstralles her pipes hente And alle other of instrumente Thei nakered piped and blew ...
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... made unconsciously and without definite artistic purpose . Hence it is no surprising result if the poem possesses neither symmetry nor completeness and the new things are merely patches upon the old . But such is the character of the ...
... made unconsciously and without definite artistic purpose . Hence it is no surprising result if the poem possesses neither symmetry nor completeness and the new things are merely patches upon the old . But such is the character of the ...
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alliteration allusion altenglischen Astarte ausgabe author bedeutung beiden Beowulf besonders Bohun briefe buch Byron Byron's captain case Chaucer Chaucer's Cressida death deutschen dichter dichtung diphthonge diphthongierung early edition England Englische Studien englischen sprache ersten fähnrich finden first form found gedicht Gertrude Atherton giebt given good grammatik great grossen grund H. G. Wells Hamlet hand Hoops jahre jahrhunderts John Jonson king Kölbing language letzten lich life lines litteratur London Lord Lord Byron love made make Marston menschen mittelenglischen mittelland modern Murray muss namen natur neue Othello passage person play poem Pope Preis Prof read sagt same says scene schüler schwan Schwanritter Second Folio Shakespeare Shakespeare's Skeat Small sprache Stafford stelle syntax take teil text thatsache things think thou time Tony Transvaal Troilus übersetzung unserer verf verfasser verse viel werke wohl word work world wort wörterbuch Wulfstan years zweite
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Page 405 - THE right of Nature,' which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature, that is to say, of his own life; and consequently of doing anything which in his own judgment and reason he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.
Page 33 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw. And 'deal damnation round the land. On each I judge thy foe.
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Page 31 - Too subtle-potent, tun'd too sharp in sweetness For the capacity of my ruder powers : I fear it much ; and I do fear besides That I shall lose distinction in my joys ; As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps The enemy flying.
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Page 429 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th...
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Page 153 - It stands alone as the one general history of the country, for the sake of which all others, if young and old are wise, will be speedily and surely set aside.