The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 27
... ancient form , sometimes in revised and modernised versions . We may reasonably suppose that the Beowulf then received those last touches which are still visible to the reader as masking or softening the latent heathendom of that poem ...
... ancient form , sometimes in revised and modernised versions . We may reasonably suppose that the Beowulf then received those last touches which are still visible to the reader as masking or softening the latent heathendom of that poem ...
Pagina 32
... ancient Latin and Greek ; and such , in a less degree , was the Anglo- Saxon before the Conquest . The following piece may serve to illustrate the Saxon inflections : - Upahafenum eagum on pa heah- nysse and apenedum earmum ongan ...
... ancient Latin and Greek ; and such , in a less degree , was the Anglo- Saxon before the Conquest . The following piece may serve to illustrate the Saxon inflections : - Upahafenum eagum on pa heah- nysse and apenedum earmum ongan ...
Pagina 33
... ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets , after it is well furnished with prepositions , there will most likely be a great shedding of inflections . And so it happened to ...
... ancient fashion , ornamental rather than necessary . At the first great shake which such a language gets , after it is well furnished with prepositions , there will most likely be a great shedding of inflections . And so it happened to ...
Pagina 38
... ancient speech by de- scription , unless the writer is aided by the studies of the reader . It would be vain to assume an English public to be acquainted with the elder form of their mother tongue ; and therefore we are limited to such ...
... ancient speech by de- scription , unless the writer is aided by the studies of the reader . It would be vain to assume an English public to be acquainted with the elder form of their mother tongue ; and therefore we are limited to such ...
Pagina 41
... ancient grammar , which rested almost entirely on literary culture . The leading men in the state having no interest in the vernacular , its cultivation fell immediately into neglect . The chief of the Saxon clergy deposed or removed ...
... ancient grammar , which rested almost entirely on literary culture . The leading men in the state having no interest in the vernacular , its cultivation fell immediately into neglect . The chief of the Saxon clergy deposed or removed ...
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