Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... sein unci wirken, nam: von einer hinter scheinbarer Harmlosigkeit sich bewegenden lauernden Bosheit. The much-talkedof Euripidean line, 'Hipp.' 612: '/ yoS6J uficj)iox' 1) Si ipfjr/i' trVatyiorof, is commonly warped to this sense. English two-tongued may also be brought in evidence, and Sk.JiAmd-means ' false,' 'treacherous.' For the /gligh it seems as if we could almost go back to its physiological origin. The tongue makes no more characteristic noise than the implosive sound produced by fitting the tongue close to the palate, and then drawing it very suddenly down. I have made the sound for a number of people and have asked them to pronounce it. The invariable answer has been 'click.' The Aryan explosive rendering of this implosive sound was gligh. The meaning 'lick' was subsequent to 'tongue.' I attempt to bridge the connection of noun and verb in my studies in Agglutination which will be summarized in the Proceedings of the Am. Or. Soc. for 1894. Edwin W. Fay. Washington and Lee Univ. "EARTH UPON EARTH." The stanzas published by Dr. W. P. Reeves under the title "Earth upon Earth" in Mod. Lang. Notes for April (ix, 204) consist of two distinct documents: (1) the poem "Earth upon Earth" (seven stanzas, twenty-eight verses), and (2) the lines " Whoo soo hym bethowght," etc. (vv. 29-31 in Dr. Reeves's numbering). The second of these documents was long ago published by Thomas Wright, 'Rel. Ant.,' '. 235-236 (repeated in Matzner, 'Altengl. Sprachpr., Poesie,' p. 51). Bede in Dr. Reeves's text is not " prayer," as he interprets it, but a bad form for bedde. In several other particulars Wright's text (Arundel MS. 292) furnishes better readings than those of the Stratford scroll. A similar scrap is in...
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