The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 45
... 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 exceeds 30,000 lines , was ...
... 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 exceeds 30,000 lines , was ...
Pagina 50
... Ormulum may be proximately dated at A.D. 1215 . This is a versified narrative of the Gospels , addressed by Ormin or Orm to his brother Walter , and after his own name called by the author ' Ormulum ' ; by which designation it is ...
... Ormulum may be proximately dated at A.D. 1215 . This is a versified narrative of the Gospels , addressed by Ormin or Orm to his brother Walter , and after his own name called by the author ' Ormulum ' ; by which designation it is ...
Pagina 53
... Ormulum the regularity is perfect , but it is the regularity of the new style of versification , learnt from foreign teachers . The iambic measure sits admirably on the ancient diction for Orm , new as he is in his metre , is old in his ...
... Ormulum the regularity is perfect , but it is the regularity of the new style of versification , learnt from foreign teachers . The iambic measure sits admirably on the ancient diction for Orm , new as he is in his metre , is old in his ...
Pagina 143
... that the idea of ortho- graphy was a modern affair , and that the spelling of our early writers was chaotic and unstudied . But this would be a great mistake . 144. The poet of the Ormulum ( A.D. 1215 ) Spelling and Pronunciation.
... that the idea of ortho- graphy was a modern affair , and that the spelling of our early writers was chaotic and unstudied . But this would be a great mistake . 144. The poet of the Ormulum ( A.D. 1215 ) Spelling and Pronunciation.
Pagina 144
John Earle. 144. The poet of the Ormulum ( A.D. 1215 ) earnestly begs that in future copies of his work , respect may be had to his orthography . The passage has been quoted and translated above , 50 . Chaucer also , in the closing ...
John Earle. 144. The poet of the Ormulum ( A.D. 1215 ) earnestly begs that in future copies of his work , respect may be had to his orthography . The passage has been quoted and translated above , 50 . Chaucer also , in the closing ...
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