The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... person for all the orld ' ; . and ' fidelicet ' for ' videlicet ' - ' I most fehemently desire you , ' & c . 3. This familiar illustration has lost none of its force since the time of Shakspeare . A recent traveller in North Wales saw a ...
... person for all the orld ' ; . and ' fidelicet ' for ' videlicet ' - ' I most fehemently desire you , ' & c . 3. This familiar illustration has lost none of its force since the time of Shakspeare . A recent traveller in North Wales saw a ...
Pagina 38
... persons . So in Saxon : ' Canst pu pone preost pe is gehaten Eadsige ? ' Knowest thou the priest that is called Eadsige ? 37. On is a common preposition in Saxon , but its area of incidence is different . We often find that an Anglo ...
... persons . So in Saxon : ' Canst pu pone preost pe is gehaten Eadsige ? ' Knowest thou the priest that is called Eadsige ? 37. On is a common preposition in Saxon , but its area of incidence is different . We often find that an Anglo ...
Pagina 44
... persons in the best ranks of society . The native speech , bereft of its central standard , fell abroad again . It fell back into that divided condition , 44 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . Literature of the Transition.
... persons in the best ranks of society . The native speech , bereft of its central standard , fell abroad again . It fell back into that divided condition , 44 THE RISE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . Literature of the Transition.
Pagina 55
... person who makes a livelihood by amusing tricks . Secondly , it has the moral sense of an impostor or deceiver . Both these senses date from the French period of our history . To jape is to jest coarsely ; a japer is a low buffoon ...
... person who makes a livelihood by amusing tricks . Secondly , it has the moral sense of an impostor or deceiver . Both these senses date from the French period of our history . To jape is to jest coarsely ; a japer is a low buffoon ...
Pagina 66
... persons , such as Chaucer's gentle and lady- like Prioress , spoke a French which , as the poet informs us , was utterly unlike ' French of Paris . ' What then must have been the French of the homely upland fellows Trevisa tells of and ...
... persons , such as Chaucer's gentle and lady- like Prioress , spoke a French which , as the poet informs us , was utterly unlike ' French of Paris . ' What then must have been the French of the homely upland fellows Trevisa tells of and ...
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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 žat