The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 45
... Layamon's Brut , and the Ormulum ; Layamon representing the dialect of the south and west , and Orm that of the east and north . * The Brut of Layamon , a work which embodies in a poetic form the legends of British history , and which ...
... Layamon's Brut , and the Ormulum ; Layamon representing the dialect of the south and west , and Orm that of the east and north . * The Brut of Layamon , a work which embodies in a poetic form the legends of British history , and which ...
Pagina 46
... Layamon the priest , who lived at Areley Kings , on the west bank of the Severn , oppo- site Stourport , and who there served the church , being the chaplain and inmate of ' the good knight ' of the parish . His language runs back and ...
... Layamon the priest , who lived at Areley Kings , on the west bank of the Severn , oppo- site Stourport , and who there served the church , being the chaplain and inmate of ' the good knight ' of the parish . His language runs back and ...
Pagina 50
... Layamon has the forms englisc , englis , anglis , anglisce ; but Orm has enngliss , and still more frequently the fully developed form ennglissh . The author is lavish of his consonants . 50. This is a constant feature of the Ormulum ...
... Layamon has the forms englisc , englis , anglis , anglisce ; but Orm has enngliss , and still more frequently the fully developed form ennglissh . The author is lavish of his consonants . 50. This is a constant feature of the Ormulum ...
Pagina 53
... Layamon and Orm both cling to the old in different ways : Layamon in his poetic form , Orm in his diction . Both also bear traces , in different ways , of the earlier processes of that great change which the French was now working in ...
... Layamon and Orm both cling to the old in different ways : Layamon in his poetic form , Orm in his diction . Both also bear traces , in different ways , of the earlier processes of that great change which the French was now working in ...
Pagina 153
... Layamon and then as honour in Chaucer , and in both cases it was accented after the French manner on the last syllable . But now that the accent has moved forward to the first syllable , there is a tendency to abolish the traces of ...
... Layamon and then as honour in Chaucer , and in both cases it was accented after the French manner on the last syllable . But now that the accent has moved forward to the first syllable , there is a tendency to abolish the traces of ...
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