THE first three of the following paragraphs are from the former Preface of this book. In the
choice of texts by which the student is to be introduced to the language and literature of Anglo-…

… It may, perhaps, be contended, from this point of view, that the standard Anglo-Saxon
Readers like Sweet's and Bright's contain more material than can be made use of in the tinme at …

… dictionary when a Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary was brought … including my own glossaries
to the Anglo-Saxon Reader and … The great difficulty of Anglo-Saxon lexicography is that we …

… ; for the same object can appear bright at one moment, dull at … yellow is very different from
that of bright lemon yellow. This … to mislead us when reading AngloSaxon. Something very …

… Finally, when reading any Anglo-Saxon text, we must keep in mind that the scribes were
not simply mere copyists, but that many of them may well have recomposed parts of the texts …

… Something on the plan of Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader, as far as the texts are concerned, …
of other editors, Apparently chiefly Sweet and Bright, from whom most of the selections are …

… fully sustain Professor Bright's reputation for thorough, scholarly work which he won for
himself through his excellent Anglo-Saxon Reader and his Gospel of Saint Luke in Anglo-Saxon, …

… We do not see Aristotle, for example, reading Homer as evidence of early Greek social … We
can recover metaphors offered by authors to a reading community; or, as Howe has put it, we …

… Hence the alterations in this edition of Bright's Reader are limited to (1) such changes in the
grammar as are necessary to bring it into accord with current views, (2) a few corrections in the …

… ), and the American Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader, which has … to the earlier editions of my
Reader; but the grammatical … and those who use my Reader by following the same system of …