The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 31
... look at a page of modern English , we see not only nouns , verbs , adjectives , adverbs , conjunctions , these words of primary necessity , but a sprinkling of little interpreters among the greater words , and that the relations of the ...
... look at a page of modern English , we see not only nouns , verbs , adjectives , adverbs , conjunctions , these words of primary necessity , but a sprinkling of little interpreters among the greater words , and that the relations of the ...
Pagina 46
... look at such a poem as this to perceive at once that it was not the work of any one year or even of a few years . It must be regarded as the literary hobby of the whole life of Layamon the priest , who lived at Areley Kings , on the ...
... look at such a poem as this to perceive at once that it was not the work of any one year or even of a few years . It must be regarded as the literary hobby of the whole life of Layamon the priest , who lived at Areley Kings , on the ...
Pagina 51
... look carefully that be write it so , for else he cannot write it correctly in English - of that he may be as- sured ! There is another matter of orthography which is a philo- logical peculiarity with this author . When words that begin ...
... look carefully that be write it so , for else he cannot write it correctly in English - of that he may be as- sured ! There is another matter of orthography which is a philo- logical peculiarity with this author . When words that begin ...
Pagina 78
... looks like the participle of the verb to pull , in the Prologue 177 : - ' He yaf not of the text a pulled hen , Which saith that hunters ben not holy men . ' The difference of look between the French initial gu and the English initial w ...
... looks like the participle of the verb to pull , in the Prologue 177 : - ' He yaf not of the text a pulled hen , Which saith that hunters ben not holy men . ' The difference of look between the French initial gu and the English initial w ...
Pagina 85
... look at , are nothing but French words in a Saxon mask . The word business has not , as far as I know , been suspected , yet I offer it without hesitation as an example . The adjective busy existed in Saxon , and although the -ness ...
... look at , are nothing but French words in a Saxon mask . The word business has not , as far as I know , been suspected , yet I offer it without hesitation as an example . The adjective busy existed in Saxon , and although the -ness ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Ballad Society become belongs called century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonant dialect distinction Dutch elder emphasis English language example expression fact Faerie Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage habit Hebrew Henry VI illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection King Latin Layamon letter literature means metre mind modern English native nature noun observed onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle person philological phrasal phrase plural poet poetry preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation Randle Cotgrave reader retained rhyme rhythm Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signifies sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax thing thou tion tone traces translation verb verbal vowel William Cowper William Wordsworth writing written þæt þat