The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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... true and natural place assigned to it , according to the order , relation , and proportion dictated by the nature of language . What the nature of language is , can be ascer- tained only by a wide comparison of languages taken at ...
... true and natural place assigned to it , according to the order , relation , and proportion dictated by the nature of language . What the nature of language is , can be ascer- tained only by a wide comparison of languages taken at ...
Pagina 43
... true continuity of the nation had not , in fact any more than in word , been entirely broken , but survived , in due time to assert itself anew . - ' And yet , while the statelier superstructure of the language , almost all articles of ...
... true continuity of the nation had not , in fact any more than in word , been entirely broken , but survived , in due time to assert itself anew . - ' And yet , while the statelier superstructure of the language , almost all articles of ...
Pagina 75
... true of heart , bearken ye a while to my song , of grief that death bath lately done us , which maketh me sigh and sorrow as I sing : of a knight who was so strong , that God hath accomplished His purpose by his bands ; methinks that ...
... true of heart , bearken ye a while to my song , of grief that death bath lately done us , which maketh me sigh and sorrow as I sing : of a knight who was so strong , that God hath accomplished His purpose by his bands ; methinks that ...
Pagina 78
... true natives . Thus we find in Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women , the verb banish with the Saxon verbal prefix y- , as— ' And Brutus hath by hire chaste bloode yswore , That Tarquyn shuld ybanysshed be therfore . ' French words in ...
... true natives . Thus we find in Chaucer's Legende of Goode Women , the verb banish with the Saxon verbal prefix y- , as— ' And Brutus hath by hire chaste bloode yswore , That Tarquyn shuld ybanysshed be therfore . ' French words in ...
Pagina 95
... true we have no surviving instance of the Saxon bonig , but it may be reason- ably surmised that the word was already in Saxon times . spread just as it is now , only in the form of bonig . We have the substantive which would naturally ...
... true we have no surviving instance of the Saxon bonig , but it may be reason- ably surmised that the word was already in Saxon times . spread just as it is now , only in the form of bonig . We have the substantive which would naturally ...
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