The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 21
... Chaucer , but also in the Saxon Gospels , in Matt . xiii . in those places where our version has tares . The Saxon form is coccel . The word is not found in the kindred dialects . This is the more important to observe , because the bulk ...
... Chaucer , but also in the Saxon Gospels , in Matt . xiii . in those places where our version has tares . The Saxon form is coccel . The word is not found in the kindred dialects . This is the more important to observe , because the bulk ...
Pagina 28
... Chaucer . From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries there was a thriving national literature in the Anglian dialect , and the best known specimens of it to us on the south of the Tweed are the works of Robert Burns , and the ...
... Chaucer . From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries there was a thriving national literature in the Anglian dialect , and the best known specimens of it to us on the south of the Tweed are the works of Robert Burns , and the ...
Pagina 57
... Chaucer , precisely as at present : - Seven is my chance , and thin is cink and treye . ' Canterbury Tales , 12,587 . Chance itself is one of those gaming terms , and so is hazard , which was the prominent word in the phraseology of ...
... Chaucer , precisely as at present : - Seven is my chance , and thin is cink and treye . ' Canterbury Tales , 12,587 . Chance itself is one of those gaming terms , and so is hazard , which was the prominent word in the phraseology of ...
Pagina 60
... Chaucer , but this has the air of a preparation for those writers . This romance sometimes resembles not distantly the Romaunt of the Rose . The feature which most claims attention is the working in of French words with the English ...
... Chaucer , but this has the air of a preparation for those writers . This romance sometimes resembles not distantly the Romaunt of the Rose . The feature which most claims attention is the working in of French words with the English ...
Pagina 61
... Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose . Moreover , the language is in other respects so like the court - English of the fourteenth century , that we cannot but regard it as in a special manner one of the dawning lights of the standard language ...
... Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose . Moreover , the language is in other respects so like the court - English of the fourteenth century , that we cannot but regard it as in a special manner one of the dawning lights of the standard language ...
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