The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1871 - 599 pagine |
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Pagina 34
... whole series of substitutions successively superseding each other have occupied the place of an old Saxon word . The Saxon witodlice was in the middle ages represented by verily , and in modern times by certainly . The verb gehyrsumian ...
... whole series of substitutions successively superseding each other have occupied the place of an old Saxon word . The Saxon witodlice was in the middle ages represented by verily , and in modern times by certainly . The verb gehyrsumian ...
Pagina 37
... whole on his feet , he who before was borne on bier to church . 6 One of the least changed is the preposition To . This will mostly stand in an English translation out of Saxon : And se halga him cwæp to , Ponne þu cymst to Winceastre ...
... whole on his feet , he who before was borne on bier to church . 6 One of the least changed is the preposition To . This will mostly stand in an English translation out of Saxon : And se halga him cwæp to , Ponne þu cymst to Winceastre ...
Pagina 46
... was not the work of any one year or even of a few years . It must be regarded as the literary hobby of the whole life of Layamon the priest , who lived at Areley Kings , on the west bank of the Severn 46 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
... was not the work of any one year or even of a few years . It must be regarded as the literary hobby of the whole life of Layamon the priest , who lived at Areley Kings , on the west bank of the Severn 46 SKETCH OF THE RISE.
Pagina 65
... whole of this passage for the reader . We will modernise a specimen to serve as a guide to the rest . selected as recording the linguistic condition of the country . And the Normans could not then speak any speech but their own . And ...
... whole of this passage for the reader . We will modernise a specimen to serve as a guide to the rest . selected as recording the linguistic condition of the country . And the Normans could not then speak any speech but their own . And ...
Pagina 75
... whole course of English literature . Skelton , the 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 ...
... whole course of English literature . Skelton , the 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 ...
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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