The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 42
... native speech are given with much felicity of illustration . I have the pleasure of inserting the following passage with the permission of the author : - We might almost reconstruct our history , so far as it turns upon the Norman ...
... native speech are given with much felicity of illustration . I have the pleasure of inserting the following passage with the permission of the author : - We might almost reconstruct our history , so far as it turns upon the Norman ...
Pagina 44
... native language was cast into the shade by the foreign speech of the conquerors . All that time French was getting more and more widely known and spoken ; and it never covered so wide an area in this island as it did at the moment when ...
... native language was cast into the shade by the foreign speech of the conquerors . All that time French was getting more and more widely known and spoken ; and it never covered so wide an area in this island as it did at the moment when ...
Pagina 46
... native literature enough to give a tinge to his diction , and to preserve a little of the ancient grammar . Among the more observable features of his language are the following : — Infinitives in i , ie , or y ; the use of for f ; the ...
... native literature enough to give a tinge to his diction , and to preserve a little of the ancient grammar . Among the more observable features of his language are the following : — Infinitives in i , ie , or y ; the use of for f ; the ...
Pagina 58
... native litera- ture ; but desultory and without any centre of their own they hover provincially around the privileged and authoritative languages of French and Latin . They have not among themselves a common or even a leading form of ...
... native litera- ture ; but desultory and without any centre of their own they hover provincially around the privileged and authoritative languages of French and Latin . They have not among themselves a common or even a leading form of ...
Pagina 60
... native language . Of these we will first mention The Lay of Havelok the Dane , which is in a midland dialect , but almost as free from strong provincial marks as it is from French words . It uses the sh , as will be seen from the ...
... native language . Of these we will first mention The Lay of Havelok the Dane , which is in a midland dialect , but almost as free from strong provincial marks as it is from French words . It uses the sh , as will be seen from the ...
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