This excellent fruit has had an involved and not entirely fortunate nomenclative history. A citrus fruit of the East Indies, it is said to have ?een t::ken from there to the West Indies by a ...

It is a known fact that the traditional grammars of English, based on Gre~ and Latin models, invariably assign to various tenses, specific functions of time. Yet the actual usage sho...

It is in Homer that we meet for the first time the future protagonists in the Troilus and Cres ida love story. The Iliad opens with th<.: quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilles ove...

ln Middle English literature the dream motif has been treated in two ways: first, as a framework for rdating a certain story or incident (like the 11Romancc of the Rose» or "Pearl»), and...

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