The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 58
... common or even a leading form of speech . This is the period that has been so excellently illustrated by the labours of the Early English Text Society . The first example of the new group is the beautiful poem of Genesis and Exodus ...
... common or even a leading form of speech . This is the period that has been so excellently illustrated by the labours of the Early English Text Society . The first example of the new group is the beautiful poem of Genesis and Exodus ...
Pagina 66
... 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 66 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
... 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 66 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
Pagina 68
... common between themselves , that they were both conversant with court life , and moved in the highest regions of English society . They wrote in fact King's English . This advantage , joined to the excellence of the works them- selves ...
... common between themselves , that they were both conversant with court life , and moved in the highest regions of English society . They wrote in fact King's English . This advantage , joined to the excellence of the works them- selves ...
Pagina 71
... common use . the Roman th in the above document , and that is in a family name ; by which we may suppose that the th was already recognised as more fashionable . The following is the modern English of this unique proclamation . ¶ Henry ...
... common use . the Roman th in the above document , and that is in a family name ; by which we may suppose that the th was already recognised as more fashionable . The following is the modern English of this unique proclamation . ¶ Henry ...
Pagina 78
... common English word . For instance , the French verb burnir just cited appears in both these poets in the strangely English and absolutely misleading form of burned : - wrought al of burned steele . ' Knight's Tale , 2185 ; ed . Tyrw ...
... common English word . For instance , the French verb burnir just cited appears in both these poets in the strangely English and absolutely misleading form of burned : - wrought al of burned steele . ' Knight's Tale , 2185 ; ed . Tyrw ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb Alfred Tennyson alliteration ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Ballad Society become belongs called century character Chaucer collocation compound conjunction consonant dialect distinction Dutch elder emphasis English language example expression fact Faerie Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words German Gothic Gothic languages grammatical Greek guage habit Hebrew Henry VI illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection King Latin Layamon letter literature means metre mind modern English native nature noun observed onomatopoetic original Ormulum orthography participle person philological phrasal phrase plural poet poetry preposition present preterite pronominal pronoun pronunciation Randle Cotgrave reader retained rhyme rhythm Saxon seems sense sentence Shakspeare signifies sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantive syllable symbol-verb symbolic words syntax thing thou tion tone traces translation verb verbal vowel William Cowper William Wordsworth writing written þæt þat