The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 2
... reader in possession of the nature of the thing . When a Welshman speaks English in Shakspeare he often substitutes P for B , as Fluellen in Henry V. act v . sc . 1 : ' pragging knave , Pistoll , which you and your self and all the ...
... reader in possession of the nature of the thing . When a Welshman speaks English in Shakspeare he often substitutes P for B , as Fluellen in Henry V. act v . sc . 1 : ' pragging knave , Pistoll , which you and your self and all the ...
Pagina 3
... reader is familiar with the twofold divi- sion of the mute consonants into lip , tooth , and throat consonants in the one direction ; and into thin , middle , and aspirate consonants in the other direction . If not , he should learn ...
... reader is familiar with the twofold divi- sion of the mute consonants into lip , tooth , and throat consonants in the one direction ; and into thin , middle , and aspirate consonants in the other direction . If not , he should learn ...
Pagina 5
... reader that here we have traces of a regular law . We only desire to establish the fact that our language is of one and the same strain with the Greek and Latin , that is to say , it is one of the Indo - European family . It will be ...
... reader that here we have traces of a regular law . We only desire to establish the fact that our language is of one and the same strain with the Greek and Latin , that is to say , it is one of the Indo - European family . It will be ...
Pagina 27
... reader as masking or softening the latent heathendom of that poem . They also had their domestic annals , written in the Anglian dialect of Northum- bria . All this vernacular literature perished under the ravages of the Danes in the ...
... reader as masking or softening the latent heathendom of that poem . They also had their domestic annals , written in the Anglian dialect of Northum- bria . All this vernacular literature perished under the ravages of the Danes in the ...
Pagina 38
... 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 illustrations as may be understood with only a knowledge of modern English . Under ...
... 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 illustrations as may be understood with only a knowledge of modern English . Under ...
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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