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... dialects , its grammar , its syntax , and its versification . What we call the Anglo - Saxon , it may be observed , appears to have been commonly called by those who spoke it the English language , even from the age of Bede , before ...
... dialects , its grammar , its syntax , and its versification . What we call the Anglo - Saxon , it may be observed , appears to have been commonly called by those who spoke it the English language , even from the age of Bede , before ...
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... dialect of the same great primitive tongue which probably at one time prevailed over the whole of Western Europe , and is still vernacular in Ire- land , in Wales , and among the Highlanders of Scotland . After the country became a ...
... dialect of the same great primitive tongue which probably at one time prevailed over the whole of Western Europe , and is still vernacular in Ire- land , in Wales , and among the Highlanders of Scotland . After the country became a ...
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... dialects , one in the south , another in the north . All these forms of bastard Latin , wherever they arose , whether in Italy , in Spain , or in Gaul , were known by the common name of Roman , or Romance , languages , or the Rustic ...
... dialects , one in the south , another in the north . All these forms of bastard Latin , wherever they arose , whether in Italy , in Spain , or in Gaul , were known by the common name of Roman , or Romance , languages , or the Rustic ...
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... dialect could not fail to be thereby peculiarly affected , and its natural divergence from the southern Romance materially aided and pro- moted . The result , in fact , was that the two dialects became two distinct languages , differing ...
... dialect could not fail to be thereby peculiarly affected , and its natural divergence from the southern Romance materially aided and pro- moted . The result , in fact , was that the two dialects became two distinct languages , differing ...
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... dialect formerly so called yet subsists as the popular speech , though , of course , much changed and debased from what it was in the days of its old renown , when it lived on the lips of rank and genius and beauty , and was the ...
... dialect formerly so called yet subsists as the popular speech , though , of course , much changed and debased from what it was in the days of its old renown , when it lived on the lips of rank and genius and beauty , and was the ...
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Abbot afterwards ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Archbishop Bede Bishop cæsura called Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer Chronicle church collection composition Conquest early edition Edward Edward III England entitled Essais fourteenth century France French French language Geoffrey Geoffrey of Monmouth Greek hath Henry Henry II Hist historian History Hoveden John John of Salisbury king language Latin latter learned lines literature Lond Lord manuscript Matthew Paris monastery monk native Norman Nott Ordericus Vitalis original Oxford Paris passage Piers Ploughman Ploughman poem poet poetical poetry printed probably prose published quod reign remarkable rhyme Richard Ritson Robert Robert of Gloucester Roger Bacon Saint Saxon says schools Scotish Scotland Scriptores song supposed syllables Tale thing thirteenth century thou tion tongue translation Trouvère twelfth century Tyrwhitt University University of Paris verse versification vols volume Warton whan William words writer written
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Página 242 - Saxon at this day, yet it is not so Courtly nor so currant as our Southerne English is: no more is the far Westerne mans speach. Ye shall therefore take the vsuall speach of the Court, and that of London and the shires lying about London within Ix. myles, and not much aboue.
Página 231 - I should not leave myself a spoon, there shall no poor neighbour of mine bear no loss by my chance, happened in my house. I pray you be, with my children and your household, merry in God...
Página 262 - I know she swore with raging mind, Her kingdom only set apart, There was no loss by law of kind That could have gone so near her heart. And this was chiefly all her pain...
Página 11 - Roman marriages at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century were childless.
Página 261 - I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair ; For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many mo' Than I with pen have skill to show.
Página 76 - He wiste that a man was repentant. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe although him sore smerte. Therfore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. His tippet was ay farsed ful of knives, And pinnes, for to given fayre wives.
Página 124 - And ye shall understand, that I have put this Book out of Latin into French, and translated it again out of French into English, that •every Man of my Nation may understand it...