The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 35
... passed over them . There are others , on the contrary , which have long been obsolete and forgotten , for which new words have been long ago substituted . Sometimes a whole series of substitutions successively superseding each other ...
... passed over them . There are others , on the contrary , which have long been obsolete and forgotten , for which new words have been long ago substituted . Sometimes a whole series of substitutions successively superseding each other ...
Pagina 48
... PASSING OF ARTHUR , Line 28582 . Tha nas ther na mare , i than fehte to laue , of twa hundred thusend monnen , tha ther leien to - hawen ; buten Arthur the king one , and of his cnihtes tweien . Arthur wes forwunded wunderliche swithe ...
... PASSING OF ARTHUR , Line 28582 . Tha nas ther na mare , i than fehte to laue , of twa hundred thusend monnen , tha ther leien to - hawen ; buten Arthur the king one , and of his cnihtes tweien . Arthur wes forwunded wunderliche swithe ...
Pagina 56
... passed into an epithet , went to swell the already overgrown list of vituperations . Such are a few of the words with which our language was endowed , in its first rude contact with the French language . Though we find nearer our own ...
... passed into an epithet , went to swell the already overgrown list of vituperations . Such are a few of the words with which our language was endowed , in its first rude contact with the French language . Though we find nearer our own ...
Pagina 67
... passed before us , we are struck with their diversity and the absence of any signs of convergency to a common type . The only feature which they agree in with a sort of growing consent , is in the dropping of the old inflections and the ...
... passed before us , we are struck with their diversity and the absence of any signs of convergency to a common type . The only feature which they agree in with a sort of growing consent , is in the dropping of the old inflections and the ...
Pagina 87
... passed into ecclesiastical diction in the term DÆD - BÔT , deed- bettering , a word that was succeeded by the term penance . Then bote was used later for material to mend with . It was for centuries , and perhaps still is in some parts ...
... passed into ecclesiastical diction in the term DÆD - BÔT , deed- bettering , a word that was succeeded by the term penance . Then bote was used later for material to mend with . It was for centuries , and perhaps still is in some parts ...
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