The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... Bible . Behind this great modern speech we have two receding stages of its earlier forms , the Middle High Dutch or the language of the Epic of the Nibelungen , and the Old High Dutch or the language of the Scripture paraphrasts Otfrid ...
... Bible . Behind this great modern speech we have two receding stages of its earlier forms , the Middle High Dutch or the language of the Epic of the Nibelungen , and the Old High Dutch or the language of the Scripture paraphrasts Otfrid ...
Pagina 15
... Bible , but linked together by a flexional structure that finds no parallel short of Sanskrit . This is the oldest book we can go back to , as written in a language like our own . It has therefore a national interest for us ; but apart ...
... Bible , but linked together by a flexional structure that finds no parallel short of Sanskrit . This is the oldest book we can go back to , as written in a language like our own . It has therefore a national interest for us ; but apart ...
Pagina 55
... Bible of 1611 . Ribald and ribaldry are of the progeny of this prolific period . Ribald was almost a class - name in the feudal system . One of the ways , and almost the only way , in which a man of low birth who had no inclination to ...
... Bible of 1611 . Ribald and ribaldry are of the progeny of this prolific period . Ribald was almost a class - name in the feudal system . One of the ways , and almost the only way , in which a man of low birth who had no inclination to ...
Pagina 69
... Bible Version may be said to be in a dialect : but Chaucer and Gower write in a speech which is thenceforward recognised as THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE , and which before their time is hardly found . This seems to admit of but one explanation ...
... Bible Version may be said to be in a dialect : but Chaucer and Gower write in a speech which is thenceforward recognised as THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE , and which before their time is hardly found . This seems to admit of but one explanation ...
Pagina 79
John Earle. beauty benign benignity besiege bible blame battle beast commend commission common crime crown cruel cruelty curate cure curious custom company compass compassion complain complexion blanch comprehend dainties blanc - mange ...
John Earle. beauty benign benignity besiege bible blame battle beast commend commission common crime crown cruel cruelty curate cure curious custom company compass compassion complain complexion blanch comprehend dainties blanc - mange ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become Bible called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction Edition English language example expression Extra fcap fact Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guttural habit haue Hebrew High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle person philological philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation relics rendered rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translation verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat