The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 44
... French must have existed in the Norman period in every town and district of England . It was a bilingual condition which lasted down to the middle of the fourteenth century , when a mixed English language broke forth and took the lead ...
... French must have existed in the Norman period in every town and district of England . It was a bilingual condition which lasted down to the middle of the fourteenth century , when a mixed English language broke forth and took the lead ...
Pagina 45
... French fashion . It must be understood here , and wherever figures are given to distinguish periods in the history of language , that it is intended for the convenience of writer and reader , for dis- tinctness of arrangement , and as ...
... French fashion . It must be understood here , and wherever figures are given to distinguish periods in the history of language , that it is intended for the convenience of writer and reader , for dis- tinctness of arrangement , and as ...
Pagina 53
... French was now working in the English language . The long story of the Brut is told in lines which affect the ancient style ; but the style is chaotic , and abounds in accidental decorations , like a thing constructed out of ruins . In ...
... French was now working in the English language . The long story of the Brut is told in lines which affect the ancient style ; but the style is chaotic , and abounds in accidental decorations , like a thing constructed out of ruins . In ...
Pagina 54
... French . We now approach the time when for a century and a half French held a recognised position as the language of education , of society , of business , and of administration . Long before 1250 we get traces of the documentary use of ...
... French . We now approach the time when for a century and a half French held a recognised position as the language of education , of society , of business , and of administration . Long before 1250 we get traces of the documentary use of ...
Pagina 56
... French language . Though we find nearer our own times , namely , in the reign of Charles the Second , some accordance of tone with the early feudal period , yet neither in that nor in any other age was there produced such a strain of ...
... French language . Though we find nearer our own times , namely , in the reign of Charles the Second , some accordance of tone with the early feudal period , yet neither in that nor in any other age was there produced such a strain of ...
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