The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 8
... Bible . Behind this great modern speech we have two receding stages of its earlier forms , the Middle High Dutch or the language of the Epic of the Nibelungen , and the Old High Dutch or the language of the Scripture paraphrasts Otfrid ...
... Bible . Behind this great modern speech we have two receding stages of its earlier forms , the Middle High Dutch or the language of the Epic of the Nibelungen , and the Old High Dutch or the language of the Scripture paraphrasts Otfrid ...
Pagina 15
... Bible , but linked together by a flexional structure that finds no parallel short of Sanskrit . This is the oldest book we can go back to , as written in a language like our own . It has therefore a national interest for us ; but apart ...
... Bible , but linked together by a flexional structure that finds no parallel short of Sanskrit . This is the oldest book we can go back to , as written in a language like our own . It has therefore a national interest for us ; but apart ...
Pagina 55
... Bible of 1611 . Ribald and ribaldry are of the progeny of this prolific period . Ribald was almost a class - name in the feudal system . One of the ways , and almost the only way , in which a man of low birth who had no inclination to ...
... Bible of 1611 . Ribald and ribaldry are of the progeny of this prolific period . Ribald was almost a class - name in the feudal system . One of the ways , and almost the only way , in which a man of low birth who had no inclination to ...
Pagina 69
... Bible Version may be said to be in a dialect : but Chaucer and Gower write in a speech which is thenceforward recognised as THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE , and which before their time is hardly found . This seems to admit of but one explanation ...
... Bible Version may be said to be in a dialect : but Chaucer and Gower write in a speech which is thenceforward recognised as THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE , and which before their time is hardly found . This seems to admit of but one explanation ...
Pagina 79
... bible complain blame complexion cruelty curate cure curious custom blanch comprehend dainties blanc - mange conceit damn boast conclude dance boil conclusion danger bounty condition debate caitiff confound debonair cape confusion deceit ...
... bible complain blame complexion cruelty curate cure curious custom blanch comprehend dainties blanc - mange conceit damn boast conclude dance boil conclusion danger bounty condition debate caitiff confound debonair cape confusion deceit ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient become belongs Bible called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonants Danish dative dialects distinction Dutch elder emphasis English language example expression Faery Queene familiar flat adverb flexion following quotation French words function genitival genitive German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek habit haue Hebrew illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble John Milton King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle person philological phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation relics rendered rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces verb vowel William Cowper writing þat