Outline of the History of the English Language and LiteratureW. & R. Chambers, 1882 - 96 páginas |
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Outline of the History of the English Language and Literature R. W. Chambers Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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adjective analytic language Anglo-Saxon authorised version belong Bible borrowed Cædmon called Canterbury Tales changed Chaucer chiefly church comes Compare corruption Danes declension denotes dialect doublets Dutch ending England English language English tongue Englishmen Essays exhorteth fifth century French words Geoffrey Chaucer German give gospels grace grammar Greek haue head-rhymes hence History inflections Ireland island John Julius Cæsar Keltic words kind king large number LATIN ELEMENT Layamon learned Let hym letter literary literature Lord Low Lat Low Latin Low-German spoken means Milton Minor Poems Ness Norman-French Normans Norsemen northern noun Novelist old English oldest originally Ormulum period person plural poet preter prose prose-writer rhyme river Roman root Saxon Scandinavian Shakspeare speech spoken Latin Suffixes Synthetic Language tense Teutonic thaet things throw tion translation verb verse vnto vocabulary ward whence Wicliffe WILLIAM TYNDALE write written wrote
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Página 29 - And, indeed, if elegancy still proceedeth, and English pens maintain that stream we have of late observed to flow from many, we shall, within few years, be fain to learn Latin to understand English, and a work will prove of equal facility in either.
Página 33 - ... of the subjugated people. The Norman altered and increased the latter, but he could not extirpate it. To defend his conquest, he took possession of the country; and, master of the soil, he erected fortresses and castles, and attempted to introduce new terms. The universe and the firmament, the planets, comets, and meteors, the atmosphere and the seasons, all were impressed with the seal of the conqueror. Hills became mountains, and dales valleys; streams were called rivers, and brooks rivulets;...
Página 53 - And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times, and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
Página 84 - And thei seye, that it hathe ben there sithe the beginnynge of the World; and was sumtyme grene, and bare Leves, unto the tyme that oure Lord dyede on the Cros ; and thanne it dryede; and so dyden alle the Trees, that weren thanne in the World. And summe seyn, be...
Página 36 - That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed : for it is a year of rest unto the land.
Página 53 - What mean ye to weep, and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. 14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done. 15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
Página 84 - St. Albans about the year 1300. Prompted by curiosity or love of adventure, he left his native country about 1327, visited the Holy Land, served under the sultan of Egypt and the great khan of Cathay (China); and after 33 years...
Página 7 - The English language is the speech spoken by the Anglo-Saxon race in England, in most parts of Scotland, in the larger part of Ireland, in the United States, in Canada, in Australia and New Zealand, in South Africa, and in many other parts of the world In the middle of the fifth century it was spoken by a few thousand men who had lately landed in England from the Continent : it is now spoken by more than one hundred millions of people. In the course of the next sixty years, it will probably be the...
Página 33 - There, beside the fire in the kitchen* and the hearth in his hall, he met his beloved kindred. The bride, the wife, and the husband, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, tied to each other by love, friendship, and all kindly feelings, knew nothing dearer than their own sweet home.
Página 34 - Speech was shapen of the breath-sounds of speakers, for the ears of hearers ; and not from speech-tokens (letters) in books, for men's eyes.