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الصفحة vi
... literature of the noblest kind , but also because the student may carry on his studies among the homelier varieties of speech which are to be found still living in all parts of the country . It is a study that offers a wide field in ...
... literature of the noblest kind , but also because the student may carry on his studies among the homelier varieties of speech which are to be found still living in all parts of the country . It is a study that offers a wide field in ...
الصفحة xi
... literature of borrowing in earlier times - Danish words in the literature and in dialects - the determination of a Scandinavian origin for words used in English — Danish characteristics in English . - · Pp . 129-150 CHAPTER IX - Object ...
... literature of borrowing in earlier times - Danish words in the literature and in dialects - the determination of a Scandinavian origin for words used in English — Danish characteristics in English . - · Pp . 129-150 CHAPTER IX - Object ...
الصفحة xii
... literature - Kentish , Mercian , and Northumbrian specimens the retention of the Old English vocabulary in that of Modern English - illustration from the works of Alfred and Ælfric employment of the Old English element by later writers ...
... literature - Kentish , Mercian , and Northumbrian specimens the retention of the Old English vocabulary in that of Modern English - illustration from the works of Alfred and Ælfric employment of the Old English element by later writers ...
الصفحة xiii
... literature in the 11th and in the 14th centuries pp . 203-239 · CHAPTER XII Important events in the 15th century ; geographical discoveries , the fall of Constantinople , the invention of printing - specimens of 15th century English ...
... literature in the 11th and in the 14th centuries pp . 203-239 · CHAPTER XII Important events in the 15th century ; geographical discoveries , the fall of Constantinople , the invention of printing - specimens of 15th century English ...
الصفحة 11
... literature , or the history of the early Quakers , will shew how much more than a mere grammatical difference , which was all that sepa- rated them in the earlier time , had come to distinguish thou and you . The latter had come to be ...
... literature , or the history of the early Quakers , will shew how much more than a mere grammatical difference , which was all that sepa- rated them in the earlier time , had come to distinguish thou and you . The latter had come to be ...
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16th century 9th century adjective Ælfric Alcuin Alfred Alfred's Battle of Maldon Bede belong Beowulf Boethius borrowed Britain Celtic Celts chapter character Chaucer Christianity Chronicle common compared conjugation connected consonant corresponding Danes Danish declension denote dialect earlier earliest early element England English declensions English words Euphuism foreign words French Gaul genitive German given glosses Gothic grammar grammatical forms Greek Icelandic illustrated inflections influence instance king kyng land language later Layamon learning literature marked Modern English native Norman Conquest noticed nouns Old English Old Saxon oldest English original Ormulum Orosius passage past tense plural poem poet poetical poetry preserved prose Roman says Scandinavian scheme scholars seen shew shewn sing speaking specimens strong verb style suggest taken thou tion tongue traced translation verse vocabulary vowel West-Saxon writers þæm þæt þat
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الصفحة 232 - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
الصفحة 278 - His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal, on light occasions not grovelling ; pure without scrupulosity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always easy, without glowing words or pointed sentences. Addison never deviates from his track to snatch a grace ; he seeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations.
الصفحة 273 - When a man writes to the world, he summons up all his reason and deliberation to assist him ; he searches, meditates, is industrious, and likely consults and confers with his judicious friends ; after all which done, he takes himself to be informed in what he writes, as well as any that writ before him...
الصفحة 275 - One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit and language, and humour also in some measure, we had before him ; bat something of art was wanting to the drama till he came.
الصفحة 279 - The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age.
الصفحة 253 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
الصفحة 278 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
الصفحة 16 - Every Man out of his Humour," usurped that dictatorship, in the Literary Republic, which he so sturdily and invariably maintained, though long and hardily disputed.
الصفحة 267 - ... valour, which that right soldier-like nation think the chiefest kindlers of brave courage. The incomparable Lacedaemonians did not only carry that kind of music ever with them to the field, but even at home, as such songs were made, so were they all content to be...
الصفحة 275 - If there was any fault in his language, 'twas that he weaved it too closely and laboriously, in his comedies especially: perhaps, too, he did a little too much Romanise our tongue, leaving the words which he translated almost as much Latin as he found them: wherein, though he learnedly followed their language, he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours.