The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 14
... writing . Literary culture has been trans- planted from the old into the midst of the young and rising peoples of the ... written history of our English language within this island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity was ...
... writing . Literary culture has been trans- planted from the old into the midst of the young and rising peoples of the ... written history of our English language within this island for the space of twelve hundred years . Christianity was ...
Pagina 15
... written record . How carefully the Mosogothic language was considered and adapted to the expression of Scripture , becomes manifest to the philological student , when he examines those precious relics of the fourth century which bear ...
... written record . How carefully the Mosogothic language was considered and adapted to the expression of Scripture , becomes manifest to the philological student , when he examines those precious relics of the fourth century which bear ...
Pagina 51
... written in that wise . Let him look carefully that he write it so , for else he cannot write it correctly in English - that know he well for certain ! 51. There is another point of orthography which is ( almost ) peculiar to this author ...
... written in that wise . Let him look carefully that he write it so , for else he cannot write it correctly in English - that know he well for certain ! 51. There is another point of orthography which is ( almost ) peculiar to this author ...
Pagina 59
... written at or near Portesham in Dorsetshire . It is a singular combination of archaic English with ripe wit and mature versification . The forms of words and even the turns of expression recall Mr. Barnes's Poems in the Dorset Dialect ...
... written at or near Portesham in Dorsetshire . It is a singular combination of archaic English with ripe wit and mature versification . The forms of words and even the turns of expression recall Mr. Barnes's Poems in the Dorset Dialect ...
Pagina 60
... written in the courtly French ; and the copious translation of this literature is the first sign of the returning tide of the native language . Of these we will first mention The Lay of Havelok the Dane , which is in a midland dialect ...
... written in the courtly French ; and the copious translation of this literature is the first sign of the returning tide of the native language . Of these we will first mention The Lay of Havelok the Dane , which is in a midland dialect ...
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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