A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language from the Norman Conquest, with Numerous Specimens, Том 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1874 |
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... written form . In applying this test or measure of antiquity , the reasonable rule would seem to be , that , wherever we have the clear beginning or end of a distinct body or continuous series of literary remains , there we have the ...
... written form . In applying this test or measure of antiquity , the reasonable rule would seem to be , that , wherever we have the clear beginning or end of a distinct body or continuous series of literary remains , there we have the ...
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... written in this pri- mitive English is , at least for us of the present day , wholly or all but wholly destitute . There is much writing in forms of human speech now extinct , or no longer in oral use , which is still intelligible to us ...
... written in this pri- mitive English is , at least for us of the present day , wholly or all but wholly destitute . There is much writing in forms of human speech now extinct , or no longer in oral use , which is still intelligible to us ...
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... written . Something is thus lost , which seems to be irre- coverable . The two great classic tongues , it is to be ... writing . And this has proved enough to maintain the modern world in what may be called a living acquaintance with ...
... written . Something is thus lost , which seems to be irre- coverable . The two great classic tongues , it is to be ... writing . And this has proved enough to maintain the modern world in what may be called a living acquaintance with ...
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... written over it or under it . In respect of everything else appertaining to the soul of the language , our understanding of it is about equally im- perfect . The consequence is , that , although it can be trans- lated , it cannot be written ...
... written over it or under it . In respect of everything else appertaining to the soul of the language , our understanding of it is about equally im- perfect . The consequence is , that , although it can be trans- lated , it cannot be written ...
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... written in it is artistically good or bad . As for learning to speak it , that is a thing as little dreamt of as learning to speak the language of Swift's Houyhnhnms . When the study of this original form of the national speech was ...
... written in it is artistically good or bad . As for learning to speak it , that is a thing as little dreamt of as learning to speak the language of Swift's Houyhnhnms . When the study of this original form of the national speech was ...
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