The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 34
... thing , can , smith , heap , on , with , an , which seem like permanent fixtures through the ages , and at first sight we might think that they had suffered no change within the horizon of our observation . They are found in our oldest ...
... thing , can , smith , heap , on , with , an , which seem like permanent fixtures through the ages , and at first sight we might think that they had suffered no change within the horizon of our observation . They are found in our oldest ...
Pagina 37
... things ; Ic seah sellic ping singan on recede , ' I saw a strange thing singing on the hall . But in Saxon it covered a greater variety of ground than it does now : ' Me wear Grendles ping undyrne cuo , ' The matter of Grendel was made ...
... things ; Ic seah sellic ping singan on recede , ' I saw a strange thing singing on the hall . But in Saxon it covered a greater variety of ground than it does now : ' Me wear Grendles ping undyrne cuo , ' The matter of Grendel was made ...
Pagina 52
... þing þatt minnstremann birrp aghenn Wipputenn cnif and shape and camb and nedle , giff he't geornepp . And all piss ... thing that minster - man should own , Except a knife and sheath and comb and needle , if he want it . And all this ...
... þing þatt minnstremann birrp aghenn Wipputenn cnif and shape and camb and nedle , giff he't geornepp . And all piss ... thing that minster - man should own , Except a knife and sheath and comb and needle , if he want it . And all this ...
Pagina 53
... thing constructed out of ruins . In the 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 ...
... thing constructed out of ruins . In the 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 ...
Pagina 54
... thing in 1385 for children to construe into English in the grammar schools , where they had been used to do their construing into French . If we ask what manner of French it was , we must point to that now spoken by the peasants of ...
... thing in 1385 for children to construe into English in the grammar schools , where they had been used to do their construing into French . If we ask what manner of French it was , we must point to that now spoken by the peasants of ...
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