The Origin and History of the English Language: And of the Early Literature it EmbodiesC. Scribner's Sons, 1892 - 574 sider |
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adjective ancient Ancren Riwle Anglo-Saxon character Chaucer Chronicle composition Crist Danish dialect diction early English edition employed England English language English literature evidence expression extant fourteenth century French German Gillomar gode Gothic Gothic languages grammatical grete hath haue Heliand hence holy Icel Icelandic inflections influence Jhesus king Kyng later Latin Layamon Lecture linguistic literary lond London Lord manuscript modern native noght noun obsolete Ohther original Ormulum orthography participle Percy Society period philological Piers Ploughman plural poem poet poetical poetry pope probably pronoun pronunciation prose rhyme Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Romance Saxon sayd Scandinavian schal seide shal sone speech syntactical syntax Thanne ther thirteenth century thou tion tongue translation tyme Ulfilas verb verse vocabulary vowels whan wolde words writers written Wycliffe Wycliffite þat καὶ
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Side 69 - Pro Deo amur et pro Christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in...
Side 96 - ... throat, So that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend. There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has more height than breadth, more depth than length. Let but this force of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, Which glows and burns not, though it gleam and shine — Light, but no heat — a flash, but not a blaze!
Side 413 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Side 543 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name; yet our soundest knowledge is to know that, we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him: and our safest eloquence concerning him is our silence, when we confess without confession that his glory is inexplicable, his greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we upon earth; therefore it behoveth our words to be wary...
Side 69 - Karlus meos sendra de suo part non los tanit, si io returnar non Tint pois: ne io ne neuls, cui eo returnar int pois, in nulla aiudha contra Lodhuuig nun li iv er.
Side 545 - THEY ERR, THEREFORE, WHO THINK THAT OF THE WILL OF GOD TO DO THIS OR THAT, THERE IS NO REASON BESIDES HIS WILL. Many times no reason known to us; but that there is no reason thereof, I judge it most unreasonable to imagine, inasmuch as he worketh all things, Kara rnv ftaXrjv ra Oc\riHarot aura, not only according to his own will, but the counsel of his own will.
Side 269 - I schalle devise you sum partie of thinges that there ben, whan time schalle ben, aftre it may best come to my mynde ; and specyally for hem, that wylle and are in purpos for to visite the Holy Citee of Jerusalem, and the holy places that are thereaboute.
Side 166 - And I will fare to Avalun, to the fairest of all maidens, to Argante the queen, an elf most fair, and she shall make my wounds all sound; make me all whole with healing draughts.
Side 102 - In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria and sorely frightened the people. They consisted of immense whirlwinds and flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air.
Side 402 - Afterward this gentlewoman learneth by one of these ladies the meaning hereof, which is this : They which honour the flower, a thing fading with every blast, are such as look after beauty and worldly pleasure.