The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina vi
... Spenser , Milton , Tennyson , are frequently indicated by abbre- viations which speak for themselves . In the Verbal Index some further progress has been made in distinguishing classes of words by diversities of type . The Index of ...
... Spenser , Milton , Tennyson , are frequently indicated by abbre- viations which speak for themselves . In the Verbal Index some further progress has been made in distinguishing classes of words by diversities of type . The Index of ...
Pagina 62
... Spenser who gave the Alexandrine metre an acknowledged place in English poetry . But the English version with which alone we are here concerned , was made late in the thirteenth century , in a lax tetrameter . Unlike the poem of Havelok ...
... Spenser who gave the Alexandrine metre an acknowledged place in English poetry . But the English version with which alone we are here concerned , was made late in the thirteenth century , in a lax tetrameter . Unlike the poem of Havelok ...
Pagina 85
... Spenser has occasion to represent that Cambello , though taken by surprise , is nevertheless quite ready to fight , he sets this military virtue in relief by saying it in both English and French . The word prest means ready ; it is the ...
... Spenser has occasion to represent that Cambello , though taken by surprise , is nevertheless quite ready to fight , he sets this military virtue in relief by saying it in both English and French . The word prest means ready ; it is the ...
Pagina 147
... Spenser's Faery Queene , i . 2. 21 , we read ritch for ' rich . ' The quaint old Scottish grammarian , Alexander Hume , who was ' Scolemaester of Bath ' in 1592 , speaks contemptuously of this ch and tch development of our pronunciation ...
... Spenser's Faery Queene , i . 2. 21 , we read ritch for ' rich . ' The quaint old Scottish grammarian , Alexander Hume , who was ' Scolemaester of Bath ' in 1592 , speaks contemptuously of this ch and tch development of our pronunciation ...
Pagina 150
... Spenser wrote the adjective white in the following unrecognisable manner , whight : His Belphœbe was clad • All in a silken camus lilly whight . - Faery Queene , ii . 3. 26 . In Ralegh's letters we repeatedly find wright write ; so also ...
... Spenser wrote the adjective white in the following unrecognisable manner , whight : His Belphœbe was clad • All in a silken camus lilly whight . - Faery Queene , ii . 3. 26 . In Ralegh's letters we repeatedly find wright write ; so also ...
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