Englische Studien, Volumes 29-30O.R. Reisland, 1901 - Comparative linguistics |
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... time the M.S. came into the hands of the Chamberlain the poem had already begun to be attributed to the authorship of Lydgate . A note on the first page , in a handwriting later than that of the M.S. itself , states that in the year ...
... time the M.S. came into the hands of the Chamberlain the poem had already begun to be attributed to the authorship of Lydgate . A note on the first page , in a handwriting later than that of the M.S. itself , states that in the year ...
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... time , he holds up to scorn an author so lacking in chivalry as to express himself in this way . " This lyketh Guido of women to endite Alas that he so cursedly would wryte . " 4 ) The omission of much of the episode of Troilus and ...
... time , he holds up to scorn an author so lacking in chivalry as to express himself in this way . " This lyketh Guido of women to endite Alas that he so cursedly would wryte . " 4 ) The omission of much of the episode of Troilus and ...
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... times of truce armour and weapons are laid aside and robes richly furred , gay hoods , enamelled girdles , are brought out of the chests to take their places . In true English fashion the knights employ their time in sport : " Thei are ...
... times of truce armour and weapons are laid aside and robes richly furred , gay hoods , enamelled girdles , are brought out of the chests to take their places . In true English fashion the knights employ their time in sport : " Thei are ...
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... time some favour with the lovers of romance , it was , in the first place , owing to his choice of a subject . The Troy Tale , as he tells it , has lost nearly all its classic beauty ; it is fitted , clumsily enough , into another ...
... time some favour with the lovers of romance , it was , in the first place , owing to his choice of a subject . The Troy Tale , as he tells it , has lost nearly all its classic beauty ; it is fitted , clumsily enough , into another ...
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... time borne out by and explanatory of such a book as the latter's " Englische Philologie " , a book which is so very characteristic of the " fine and quick observer " , as Jespersen calls his Norwegian colleague . In his observations on ...
... time borne out by and explanatory of such a book as the latter's " Englische Philologie " , a book which is so very characteristic of the " fine and quick observer " , as Jespersen calls his Norwegian colleague . In his observations on ...
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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 100 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity ; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 429 - And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair, And love and life contend in it, for what Shall be its earthly doom, the dead live there And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air.
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.
Page 38 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
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.
Page 42 - O'er-run and trampled on : then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours ; For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
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...
Page 139 - A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys. While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind...
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.