The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 10
... one hand , and the Low Dutch on the other , may be symbolised by writing the German word samt over the English word tame , thus- sa mt t a me In this mnemonic , the final e of tame is 10 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
... one hand , and the Low Dutch on the other , may be symbolised by writing the German word samt over the English word tame , thus- sa mt t a me In this mnemonic , the final e of tame is 10 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE .
Pagina 14
... writing . Literary culture has been trans- planted from the old into the midst of the young and rising peoples of the world , and hence it has come to pass that among the nations which have sprung into existence since Christianity , a ...
... writing . Literary culture has been trans- planted from the old into the midst of the young and rising peoples of the world , and hence it has come to pass that among the nations which have sprung into existence since Christianity , a ...
Pagina 29
... with those rude tribes among whom our missionaries intro- duce a translated literature at the same time with the arts of reading and writing . It has not been sufficiently considered INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH ON THE LANGUAGE . 29.
... with those rude tribes among whom our missionaries intro- duce a translated literature at the same time with the arts of reading and writing . It has not been sufficiently considered INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH ON THE LANGUAGE . 29.
Pagina 30
John Earle. reading and writing . It has not been sufficiently considered that such translations are dependent on the previous exercise of the native tongue , and that foreign help can only bring up a wild language to eloquence by very ...
John Earle. reading and writing . It has not been sufficiently considered that such translations are dependent on the previous exercise of the native tongue , and that foreign help can only bring up a wild language to eloquence by very ...
Pagina 37
... writers who have not felt the awkwardness resulting from our loss of this most regrettable old pronoun . No other of the great languages labours under a like inability . So far about the word man , which is an example of the slowest ...
... writers who have not felt the awkwardness resulting from our loss of this most regrettable old pronoun . No other of the great languages labours under a like inability . So far about the word man , which is an example of the slowest ...
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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