The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 58
... poetic literature of this early period has left few traces on our language . We have an intervening period to survey before we come to any literary blending between the two languages . In this interval , which may be rudely defined by ...
... poetic literature of this early period has left few traces on our language . We have an intervening period to survey before we come to any literary blending between the two languages . In this interval , which may be rudely defined by ...
Pagina 66
... poet informs us , was utterly unlike ' French of Paris . ' What then must have been the French of the homely upland fellows Trevisa tells of : ' Jack wold be a gentleman yf he coude speke Frensche . ' In Piers Plowman we have the dykers ...
... poet informs us , was utterly unlike ' French of Paris . ' What then must have been the French of the homely upland fellows Trevisa tells of : ' Jack wold be a gentleman yf he coude speke Frensche . ' In Piers Plowman we have the dykers ...
Pagina 75
... poet laureate of Henry VII , joins the two names together . So does our literary king , James I. So have all writers who have had occasion to speak of the fourteenth century , down to the present day . Indeed , Chaucer himself may be ...
... poet laureate of Henry VII , joins the two names together . So does our literary king , James I. So have all writers who have had occasion to speak of the fourteenth century , down to the present day . Indeed , Chaucer himself may be ...
Pagina 78
... poets in the strangely English and absolutely misleading form of burned : - wrought al of burned steele . ' Knight's Tale , 2185 ; ed . Tyrw . An harnois as for a lustie knight Which burned was as silver bright . ' Gower , Confessio ...
... poets in the strangely English and absolutely misleading form of burned : - wrought al of burned steele . ' Knight's Tale , 2185 ; ed . Tyrw . An harnois as for a lustie knight Which burned was as silver bright . ' Gower , Confessio ...
Pagina 89
... poet had risen among the popular and country party , the com- plexion of the English language would in all likelihood have been far different from what it now is . Such a poet , whether he were or were not of courtly breeding , would ...
... poet had risen among the popular and country party , the com- plexion of the English language would in all likelihood have been far different from what it now is . Such a poet , whether he were or were not of courtly breeding , would ...
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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