The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 4
... perhaps cite Búbos and pit , pro- perly pyt : but here we must pass into another group of consonants to find suitable illustrations , as our early language was remarkably poor in words beginning with P. Leav- ing then the labials or lip ...
... perhaps cite Búbos and pit , pro- perly pyt : but here we must pass into another group of consonants to find suitable illustrations , as our early language was remarkably poor in words beginning with P. Leav- ing then the labials or lip ...
Pagina 21
... perhaps a right here . And eglantine , which has become the standard poetic name for the dog - rose , and which has such a French air , due to its having been adopted from the poetry of the Fabliaux , is very probably a British word ...
... perhaps a right here . And eglantine , which has become the standard poetic name for the dog - rose , and which has such a French air , due to its having been adopted from the poetry of the Fabliaux , is very probably a British word ...
Pagina 25
... perhaps there is none greater than this , that the whole Anglian vernacular literature should have perished in the ravages of the Danes upon the Northumbrian mona- steries . Of the existence of such a native literature there is no room ...
... perhaps there is none greater than this , that the whole Anglian vernacular literature should have perished in the ravages of the Danes upon the Northumbrian mona- steries . Of the existence of such a native literature there is no room ...
Pagina 29
... perhaps even some moderate scholars have never appreciated to how great a power the Latin tongue had attained long before the Augustan era . Great languages are not built in a day . The fact is that Wessex inherited a cultivated ...
... perhaps even some moderate scholars have never appreciated to how great a power the Latin tongue had attained long before the Augustan era . Great languages are not built in a day . The fact is that Wessex inherited a cultivated ...
Pagina 31
... Perhaps the most natural date to adopt as the term of Saxon literature would be A.D. 1154 , the year of King Stephen's death , the last year that is chronicled in Saxon . The Saxon differed from modern English most conspicu- ously in ...
... Perhaps the most natural date to adopt as the term of Saxon literature would be A.D. 1154 , the year of King Stephen's death , the last year that is chronicled in Saxon . The Saxon differed from modern English most conspicu- ously in ...
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