The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... reader in possession of the nature of this law . When a Welshman speaks English in Shakspeare he often substitutes P for B , as Fluellen in Henry V , v . 1 : ' Pragging knave , Pistoll , which you and yourself and all the world know to ...
... reader in possession of the nature of this law . When a Welshman speaks English in Shakspeare he often substitutes P for B , as Fluellen in Henry V , v . 1 : ' Pragging knave , Pistoll , which you and yourself and all the world know to ...
Pagina 4
... between the English on the one hand and the Classical languages on the other . 4. We suppose the reader is familiar with the twofold division of the mute consonants into lip , tooth , 4 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... between the English on the one hand and the Classical languages on the other . 4. We suppose the reader is familiar with the twofold division of the mute consonants into lip , tooth , 4 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
Pagina 6
... reader that here we have traces of a regular law , and that our language is of one and the same strain with the Greek and Latin - that is to say , it is one of the Indo - European family . A succession of small divergences which run ...
... reader that here we have traces of a regular law , and that our language is of one and the same strain with the Greek and Latin - that is to say , it is one of the Indo - European family . A succession of small divergences which run ...
Pagina 27
... reader's eye as masking or softening the heathen- dom of the poem . Alfred was a lover of this old national poetry . With the mention of Alfred's name , we enter upon a com- paratively modern era of the language , and quit the obscurity ...
... reader's eye as masking or softening the heathen- dom of the poem . Alfred was a lover of this old national poetry . With the mention of Alfred's name , we enter upon a com- paratively modern era of the language , and quit the obscurity ...
Pagina 45
... reader , for dis- tinctness of arrangement , and as an aid to the memory , rather than as a rigid limit . For in such things the two bordering forms so shade off and blend into one another , that they are not to be rigidly outlined any ...
... reader , for dis- tinctness of arrangement , and as an aid to the memory , rather than as a rigid limit . For in such things the two bordering forms so shade off and blend into one another , that they are not to be rigidly outlined any ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become BISHOP called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction English language example expression Extra fcap Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammar 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 philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation reader relics rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon Second Edition seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translated verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written þat