Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volumen1Nicol, 1803 - 424 páginas |
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... Norman Poets in England . - Specimen of Wace's Brut . 35 CHA P. III . State of our Language and Poetry in the REIGN OF HENRY II . and RICHARD I. exemplified by an Extract from Layamon's Translation of Wace.- Conjectures concerning the ...
... Norman Poets in England . - Specimen of Wace's Brut . 35 CHA P. III . State of our Language and Poetry in the REIGN OF HENRY II . and RICHARD I. exemplified by an Extract from Layamon's Translation of Wace.- Conjectures concerning the ...
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... Norman - French : but the proportion in which these elements were combined , at any period of our history , cannot be very easily ascertained . Hickes is of opinion , that no less than nine - tenths of our present English words are of ...
... Norman - French : but the proportion in which these elements were combined , at any period of our history , cannot be very easily ascertained . Hickes is of opinion , that no less than nine - tenths of our present English words are of ...
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... Norman , becomes apparent ; yet it is not so much changed by the admixture of new words , which might be imputed to commerce with the Continent , as by changes of its own form and terminations ; for which no reason can be given . " The ...
... Norman , becomes apparent ; yet it is not so much changed by the admixture of new words , which might be imputed to commerce with the Continent , as by changes of its own form and terminations ; for which no reason can be given . " The ...
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... Normans , having only two words of this class , were accustomed to apply them to a greater variety of purposes than was usual with the Saxons . Hence perhaps arose the transitive use of the verb do , which is so frequent in our early ...
... Normans , having only two words of this class , were accustomed to apply them to a greater variety of purposes than was usual with the Saxons . Hence perhaps arose the transitive use of the verb do , which is so frequent in our early ...
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... Norman words was intended to convey the Norman pronunciation , the deficiency of adequate signs must have been still more sensibly felt ; so that our an- cestors , finding it absolutely impossible to adopt any consistent mode of ...
... Norman words was intended to convey the Norman pronunciation , the deficiency of adequate signs must have been still more sensibly felt ; so that our an- cestors , finding it absolutely impossible to adopt any consistent mode of ...
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