Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomIvison, 1880 - Всего страниц: 302 |
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... Chaucer ? " asks Thomas Carlyle " No heart burning with a thought which it could not hold , and had no word . for , and needed to shape and coin a word for , -what thou callest a metaphor , trope , or the like ? For every word we have ...
... Chaucer ? " asks Thomas Carlyle " No heart burning with a thought which it could not hold , and had no word . for , and needed to shape and coin a word for , -what thou callest a metaphor , trope , or the like ? For every word we have ...
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... Chaucer has these affectionate lines : " Of all the floures in the mede Than love I most these floures of which I rede , Such that men call daisies in our town , To them I have so great affectioun Nor is he alone in his love for the ...
... Chaucer has these affectionate lines : " Of all the floures in the mede Than love I most these floures of which I rede , Such that men call daisies in our town , To them I have so great affectioun Nor is he alone in his love for the ...
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... But it is characteristic of our worthy lexicographer to lean towards the more unpoetical of disputed derivations - neces- sary result of his absurd theory of radices . Chaucer which sounds forth here like a fragment of some.
... But it is characteristic of our worthy lexicographer to lean towards the more unpoetical of disputed derivations - neces- sary result of his absurd theory of radices . Chaucer which sounds forth here like a fragment of some.
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Their Poetry, History and Wisdom William Swinton. Chaucer which sounds forth here like a fragment of some antique ritual : " Peraventure in thilke lerge book Which that men clepe the Heven ywritten was With sterres , when that he his ...
Their Poetry, History and Wisdom William Swinton. Chaucer which sounds forth here like a fragment of some antique ritual : " Peraventure in thilke lerge book Which that men clepe the Heven ywritten was With sterres , when that he his ...
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... Chaucer does not tell us what this ' shape ' was like ; but there would seem to have been all along a fiction . of it's not being very tenuous ! The very obvious connection of ' WIFE ' with web and the verb weave has often been noticed ...
... Chaucer does not tell us what this ' shape ' was like ; but there would seem to have been all along a fiction . of it's not being very tenuous ! The very obvious connection of ' WIFE ' with web and the verb weave has often been noticed ...
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