... for the breakdown of sympathy and a broader one for the irreducible complexity of being. Such complexity inflects the very structure of what scholars, after Franco Moretti, call the quantitative analysis of literature (in the conversion of texts to countable units: one, two, three, etc.). It also reveals how texts...

... krincket, und lencket einn doch Die lieb‘ und ihr triibe-betriibetes joch! Vor dacht’ ich; wet macht mich: were achtt mich / mit fug / Wie Plato / wie Cato / wie Crates / so klug / (etc., 4 stanzas) nach Art der Trochaischen gleichsam herunter, Z.E...

... I. KG [i:] is derived from: (1) MHG i in open syllables : Jbi:la “to play”, etc. (2) MHG i before final [a] (MHG r) : mi:a “(to) me”, di:a “ (to) you”. (3) MHG ie: di:f “deep”. (4) MHG iie : fi:s “feet”. In umlauted plurals of nouns having in the singular a short vowel...

... letters and autobiography, or Holderlin’s Hyperion, etc Even in the most lucid German prose, logic is not always a good criterion when applied to German syntax. The first consideration is that of vivid expression. There is no absolute style. Schopenhauer is right in maintaining...

..., paleography, etc. ; it also allots a generous space to comparative literature and wide foreign influ- ences. Above all we welcome No. D in Section I11 in which the writers them- selves speak to us about poetry (Holthusen), prose (Ude), drama (Bernt von Heiseler). Sections IV and V...

... substantif, ca- pable de servir de premier terme dans le type ce fripon de vdet, et une interjection (diabte!) ; il explique : Un juron peut venir prendre la place non seulement du premier terme, mais aussi, quelquefois, du second . . . i la place du qualifiaitt descriptif [fripon, diable, etc...

...- pounded conjunctions (aus)si corn, (au)tant corn, tel corn, etc., has gradually been replaced by que. Convincingly he shows that que has spread analogically from the comparative conjunctions. In a short contribution Arvid Gabrielson discusses some terminological questions of English...

... Est. Veina-j6gi (earlier Wainii, Wuinti-jiiggi) ‘‘tile Western Dvina.” This Russian reforrna- tion, it may be suggested, is due to association with an ORuss. nom. sg. fern. *dvina “two-fold,” with which cf. Lith. dwynic “twins” < PrIndE. *dwi-nbnd (to dwbu- dwei- dwoi- dwL2 etc. “two...

... : Surviving Lost Words Words War 33 42 Feudalism 10 19 Equestrian terms 22 13 Arabic loans 15 8 Dress fabrics 13 15 Religion 32 8 Foods. etc. 8 9 Admn., justice, gov. 5 6 Trade, etc...

..., social issues, etc., of necessity leads one away from the secret of poetic expression as does, for instance, W. Bate- son’s statement in his book English Poetry (London, 1950) about Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” which is interpreted as a “tract for the times. It was a plea...

... Weston’s error; cf. Tobler-Lommatzsch, TLAW, I, 84. En grant 518 would, according to TLAW and many Old French editions, be written as two words (cf. grunt in D 1026). Unnecessary to alter el esporon 559. Puis que appears as two words in 586, 1417, etc., but not in 1421, 1589, etc. Quotation...

...- tatives in the sixteenth century-at least practically-of the prin- 8 Niirnberg : Guldenmundt d. A. Cf. Archiv fur Litteruturgeschichte, XI, 171. The Ursprung, etc. was subsequently used in the German revision of the Chronicle of Aventinus and by Matthias Holtzwart in his Eikones (1573...

... Wyche-Zey, but the brief digressions are always vivid: on Wilks (39-41), London in 1697 (51 ff the wits at Will’s (55 ff Catherine Trotter (83 ff the Pemell story (204 ff .) , Shrewsbury (236-37), etc. He has perhaps “discovered” the name of Farquhar’s father (15, 25) ; he has carefully...

... for nu, immer for iemer, da for do, etc In the notes (47 pages) we find summaries of each chapter and discussions of all the important ideas and expressions in the text, as well as variant read- ings, sources, and interpretations chiefly of Bernt-Burdach, Hubner, and Hammerich. Frequently...

...) The characteristic seasonal openings of Robert Fabian (“When Suturne, with his cold, isye Face,” etc., p. 45), of Skelton (“In Autumpne, when the sunne in vyrgyne,” etc., p. 49), of Surrey (“The soote season that bud, and bloom fourth bringes,” etc., p. 57), of John Higgins (“When Sommer sweete...

...; 1583, p. 80v. 19 11, 38. 20 11, 51 et passim. 21 1586 [?I, p. 61. 22 Ibid., p. 178 ; cf. Historie, I, 26, 29. 23 1586 1 ?I, pp. 17, 113, 125“’ etc. ; Hhtorie (Rome, 1585), p. 439, “por evitar proligidad.” 24 1583, pp. 86v, 174v. 25 11, 233. Dorothy F...

... loathes. Gothicism, he explains, since it postulates the reality of the supernatural, oh- viously cannot foregather with godless Communism. Furthermore, as everyone knows, Communism “eagerly seeks to destroy all art, all culture,” etc., etc. (One would enjoy a critique by Mr. Sum- mers...

... as that in E. wzn, not that in men (cf. my note, Lajrguuge 16 (1940), p. 67) ; but, having made this observation, he reverts to the traditional symbol [z], and he adds (91.1526) : “when nasalization occurs” /i/ is “replaced” by /e/ (etc Again, though noting the obsolescence of elegant “u fermC...

...,untimely death!” (IV, vi, 256). 26 Cf. “Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain” (111, vii, 62), and see note 61 below. 26 See for “courtesie” and “ (in) gratitude” note 20 above ; Lear’s “So kind a father!” (I, v, 35) ; “Your old kind father” (111, iv, ZO), etc...

... Venator (a personal friend of Opitz frorh his Hei- delberg days), Leo Allatius, etc. The contribution of Opitz is the funeral oration which he spoke at the interment of Ulderic, Prince of The reputation of this young man is interesting enough for its own sake, if we...