The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 25
... poet Cædmon , who by divine inspiration was gifted with the power of song , for the express purpose of rendering the Scripture narratives into popular verse . The extant poems of the Creation and Fall and Redemption , which are ...
... poet Cædmon , who by divine inspiration was gifted with the power of song , for the express purpose of rendering the Scripture narratives into popular verse . The extant poems of the Creation and Fall and Redemption , which are ...
Pagina 26
John Earle. that could believe their poet to be divinely called , was the nation to produce poets , and to elevate the genius of their language . Such was the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria , and here it was that our language first ...
John Earle. that could believe their poet to be divinely called , was the nation to produce poets , and to elevate the genius of their language . Such was the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria , and here it was that our language first ...
Pagina 45
... poetic form the legends of British history , and which exceeds 30,000 lines , was edited , with an English translation , by Sir Frederic Madden , in 1847. Besides discussions on the language and LITERATURE OF THE TRANSITION . 45.
... poetic form the legends of British history , and which exceeds 30,000 lines , was edited , with an English translation , by Sir Frederic Madden , in 1847. Besides discussions on the language and LITERATURE OF THE TRANSITION . 45.
Pagina 53
... poetic form , Orm in his diction . Both also bear traces , in different ways , of the earlier processes of that great change which the French was now working in the English language . The long story of the Brut is told in lines which ...
... poetic form , Orm in his diction . Both also bear traces , in different ways , of the earlier processes of that great change which the French was now working in the English language . The long story of the Brut is told in lines which ...
Pagina 59
... poet speaks of himself and of his work : - God schilde hise sowle fro helle bale God shield his soul from hell - bale de made it dus on Engel tale ! that made it thus in English tale ! 58. The most facetious of the productions of this ...
... poet speaks of himself and of his work : - God schilde hise sowle fro helle bale God shield his soul from hell - bale de made it dus on Engel tale ! that made it thus in English tale ! 58. The most facetious of the productions of this ...
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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