Modern Painters (1843); The Seven Lamps of Architecture; The Stones of Venice (1851-53); Sesame and Lilies; Lectures on Art; Fors Clavigera. One of the most wonderful and imaginative writers of English prose that ever lived. GEORGE ELIOT 1820-1880. (Marian Evans), Novelist. Adam Bede (1858); Middlemarch (1871); Daniel Deronda (1876); _Poems_. The novels of this accomplished lady rank among the greatest of modern times. THE END. Edinburgh: Printed by W. & R. Chambers. FOOTNOTES: [1] Pronounced _Mootter_. [2] Pronounced _Brooder_. [3] Thus we have _Wedn=es=day_ = the day of Woden or Odin. [4] _Jutland_ means the _land of the Jutes_; _not_ the _land that juts out_. [5] The division called =Wessex= included _Hampshire_, _Wiltshire_, _Berkshire_, _Somersetshire_, _Dorsetshire_, _Gloucestershire_, and _Devonshire_. [6] The Revival of Letters, or the Renascence (or _Renaissance_), is the name given to the new enthusiasm which seized Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, and Englishmen, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, to read the great treasures of literature that may be found in Greek and Latin books. [7] The same root exists in _monarch_, a person who rules alone. [8] Two-languaged. [9] What is called _the feudal system_ was based upon war. A knight held land of his baron; a baron of his king--on condition of bringing so many men into the field on the summons of his overlord. [10] _Low Latin_ is the name for that kind of corruption of Latin which was written and spoken after the breaking up of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. [11] A _synonym_ is a word that has the _same meaning_ as another word; like _begin_ and _commence_; _will_ and _testament_. There are very few real synonyms in English; because when the language acquired a word of similar meaning, it at once set to work to use it in a different _way_, or to give it a different _function_, or to bestow on it a different tone, colouring, or shade. [12] He might have said _hall_ and _bower_. In the old English times, the _hall_ was the outer room of the cottage, into which the front door opened, and _bower_ was the inner room. [13] A _liche_ or _lyke_ originally meant _body_. [14] _Ayenbite_ = _againbite_. The _again_ corresponds to the _re_ in _remorse_. [15] In head-rhymes, two or three words in each line begin with the same letter. [16] The highest value. [17] Carriage. [18] Unbecoming or unkind thing. [19] Kind of person. [20] Very perfect gentle. [21] Dress. [22] Gaily dressed. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Outline of the history of the English language and literature, by Anonymous