The History of the English LanguageMacmillan, 1894 - 415 sider |
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accent adjectives adverbs analogy became become belong borrowed words Celtic century changes Chaucer common compounds conquest consonant shift declension dialects dictionaries diphthong early Modern English early Teutonic element ending England English words especially example final foreign words French words genitive gradation Greek guage High German important inflectional inflectional forms labial later Latin literary language literature lost Low German Mercian Middle English Middle English period Midland mutation native words neuter Norman Norse nouns occur Old English Old French Old Low Franconian older original palatal participle phonetic plural poetry prefix present preserved preterit pronouns relation remained root Sanskrit similar singular sometimes sound speech spoken standard language stems stress strong verbs suffix syllable tendency TEUT Teutonic languages tongue velars Verner's law voiced voiceless vowel W. W. SKEAT weak verbs West Saxon write written
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Side 127 - 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...
Side 325 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Side 132 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend ? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Side 132 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Side 130 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Side 131 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Side 129 - Heaven's perpetual King, And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate, Too well I see and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow and foul defeat Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host In horrible destruction laid thus low, As far as...
Side 5 - The latter also became extinct at the end of the last, or the beginning of the present, century.
Side 91 - Our language is noble, full, and significant; and I know not why he who is master of it may not clothe ordinary things in it as decently as the Latin, if he use the same diligence in his choice of words: delectus verborum origo est eloquentiae.
Side 87 - He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle— to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do, as so should every man understand him and the judgment of wise men allow him.