Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature, Volume 1J. & H. G. Langley, 1841 - Authors, English |
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... Languages of Europe 106 Origin of the English Language . Vicissitudes of the English Language Dialects • Mandeville ; our First Traveller • 123 142 157 • 167 Chaucer · • 175 Gower . Piers Ploughman . Occleve ; the Scholar of Chaucer ...
... Languages of Europe 106 Origin of the English Language . Vicissitudes of the English Language Dialects • Mandeville ; our First Traveller • 123 142 157 • 167 Chaucer · • 175 Gower . Piers Ploughman . Occleve ; the Scholar of Chaucer ...
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... language and of one speech . " " And there is no antiquity but this that can tell any other beginning , " exclaims our honest VERSTEGAN , ex- ulting in his Teutonic blood , while furnishing an extraor- dinary evidence of the retreat of ...
... language and of one speech . " " And there is no antiquity but this that can tell any other beginning , " exclaims our honest VERSTEGAN , ex- ulting in his Teutonic blood , while furnishing an extraor- dinary evidence of the retreat of ...
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... languages , to be certain of local derivations . We have recently been cautioned by a sojourner in the most ancient ... Language , " 429. I might have placed this possible circumstance in the article " A History of Events which have not ...
... languages , to be certain of local derivations . We have recently been cautioned by a sojourner in the most ancient ... Language , " 429. I might have placed this possible circumstance in the article " A History of Events which have not ...
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... language , and our laws , and our cus- toms , originate with our Teutonic ancestors ; among them we are to look for the trunk , if not the branches , of our national establishments . In the rude antiquities of the Anglo - Saxon church ...
... language , and our laws , and our cus- toms , originate with our Teutonic ancestors ; among them we are to look for the trunk , if not the branches , of our national establishments . In the rude antiquities of the Anglo - Saxon church ...
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... language as well as the writing had passed away ; all had fallen into desuetude ; and no one suspected that the history of a whole people so utterly cast into forgetfulness could ever be written . 66 But the lost language and the ...
... language as well as the writing had passed away ; all had fallen into desuetude ; and no one suspected that the history of a whole people so utterly cast into forgetfulness could ever be written . 66 But the lost language and the ...
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Page 46 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 1 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Page 397 - And as for the Latin or Greek tongue, everything is so excellently done in them that none can do better. In the English tongue contrary, everything in a manner so meanly, both for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse.
Page 226 - It is a very striking circumstance, that the high-minded inventors of this great art tried at the very outset so bold a flight as the printing an entire Bible, and executed it with astonishing success. It was Minerva leaping on earth in her divine strength and radiant armor, ready at the moment of her nativity to subdue and destroy her enemies.
Page 49 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 345 - I am of them that furthest come behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer ; but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow ; I leave off therefore, Since in a net I seek to hold the wind. 'Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt As well as I, may spend his time in vain ! And graven with diamonds, in letters plain, There is written her fair neck round about; ' Noli me tangere ; for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
Page 99 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 48 - That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation, while he sought Evil to others...
Page 8 - CELTIC DRUIDS; Or, an Attempt to show that the Druids were the Priests of Oriental Colonies, who emigrated from India, and were the Introducers of the First or Cadmean System of Letters, and the Builders of Stonehenge, of Carnac, and of other Cyclopean works in Asia and Europe.
Page 150 - ... plainlie her own, with such shift, as nature, craft, experiens and folowing of other excellent doth lead her unto, and if she want at ani...