A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 sider |
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Side 20
... Latin is the great representative , and ( 6 ) the Teutonic , subdivisible into the Gothic , the Scandinavian , the High Germanic , and the Low Ger- manic . The Celts of Britain were independent tribes , rarely uniting against a common ...
... Latin is the great representative , and ( 6 ) the Teutonic , subdivisible into the Gothic , the Scandinavian , the High Germanic , and the Low Ger- manic . The Celts of Britain were independent tribes , rarely uniting against a common ...
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... Latin , and with these we have nothing to do , but his was the first effort to make English prose a literary language , for his last work was a Translation of the Gospel of St. John , as almost his last words were in English verse . the ...
... Latin , and with these we have nothing to do , but his was the first effort to make English prose a literary language , for his last work was a Translation of the Gospel of St. John , as almost his last words were in English verse . the ...
Side 32
... Latin work that English literature strikes its key- note . ALFRED'S WORK . - When Bæda died , Northumbria was the home of English literature . Though as yet written mostly in Latin , it was a wide - spread literature . Wilfrid of York ...
... Latin work that English literature strikes its key- note . ALFRED'S WORK . - When Bæda died , Northumbria was the home of English literature . Though as yet written mostly in Latin , it was a wide - spread literature . Wilfrid of York ...
Side 34
... Latin works into English , and when Archbishop Dunstan took up the same pursuits with eagerness . Ethelwald's school sent out from it a scholar and abbot named ELFRIC . He takes rank as the first large translator of the Bible , turning ...
... Latin works into English , and when Archbishop Dunstan took up the same pursuits with eagerness . Ethelwald's school sent out from it a scholar and abbot named ELFRIC . He takes rank as the first large translator of the Bible , turning ...
Side 37
... Latin ( the two now forming three tenths of our vocabulary ) , added ( 6 ) prefixes and suffixes and ( 7 ) the comparison of adjectives by the use of adverbs , ( 8 ) generalized the use of s as a plural termination of nouns , ( 9 ) ...
... Latin ( the two now forming three tenths of our vocabulary ) , added ( 6 ) prefixes and suffixes and ( 7 ) the comparison of adjectives by the use of adverbs , ( 8 ) generalized the use of s as a plural termination of nouns , ( 9 ) ...
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