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... meaning is sometimes given to the words , correct copy " and " original readings , " perhaps I shall be excused , if I enters omewhat minutely into the points at issue . 66 Our modern editors take the liberty ( without any warn- ing to ...
... meaning is sometimes given to the words , correct copy " and " original readings , " perhaps I shall be excused , if I enters omewhat minutely into the points at issue . 66 Our modern editors take the liberty ( without any warn- ing to ...
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... meaning . The compiler of the Analecta , also , has furnished his text with commas , semi - colons , & c . in the same way as if it were an English composition ; but as the sense often depends on the punctuation , the reader ought ...
... meaning . The compiler of the Analecta , also , has furnished his text with commas , semi - colons , & c . in the same way as if it were an English composition ; but as the sense often depends on the punctuation , the reader ought ...
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... meaning given to the word slean may be doubted . Slean , to strike , to slay , has two sets of derivative meanings ; to fix ( as it were by striking ) , to establish- -as geteld slean , to fix a tent , eorldom slean , to establish an ...
... meaning given to the word slean may be doubted . Slean , to strike , to slay , has two sets of derivative meanings ; to fix ( as it were by striking ) , to establish- -as geteld slean , to fix a tent , eorldom slean , to establish an ...
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... meaning was obvious , it has been rightly construed , and the " false concord " passed over in silence . In other cases , it has led to very bad translation , and more than once to very unsound criticism . It has been held for instance ...
... meaning was obvious , it has been rightly construed , and the " false concord " passed over in silence . In other cases , it has led to very bad translation , and more than once to very unsound criticism . It has been held for instance ...
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... meaning he has given to it . Such a construction , too , requires the accusative gedwild . I have construed dæl as if it were the past tense of a neuter verb delan , bearing the same relation to dol error ( Cædmon 18 ) as dwelan or ...
... meaning he has given to it . Such a construction , too , requires the accusative gedwild . I have construed dæl as if it were the past tense of a neuter verb delan , bearing the same relation to dol error ( Cædmon 18 ) as dwelan or ...
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accentual verses adjective Alexandrine alliteration alliterative Anglo-Saxon appears Arthur ballet-stave Beowulf burthen Cædmon Chaucer child common couplet dialect doth earth Engle English poetry Eormanric final rhime five accents four accents fourteenth century gode Harl hath heaven hexameters hire Horn Iambic inflexion interwoven king land language Latin Layamon lengthened Lord meaning metre metrical point Milton monk Myrgings Norman northern dialect notice o'er Old English original Ormulum passage peculiarities plural poem poet poetry probably Psalm-metres quoted reader rhime rhythm Robert of Brunne Romance Romance poetry sectional rhime seems singular sixteenth century sometimes song specimen stanza stave stave of four syllables Tetrameter thær thæs thæt thair tham thatt thee ther thirteenth century Thorpe thou thurrh translation Trochaic twelfth century verb verse versification virelay wæs word writer written wrote