An Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of Anglo-Saxon Literature in EnglandEdward Lumley, 56, Chancery Lane, 1840 - 186 pages |
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Page ix
... Dialects - English Names of Places chiefly Anglo - Saxon - Classification of Anglo - Saxon MSS . desirable -Destruction of Libraries in the ravages of the Danes , and during the Civil Wars of York and Lancaster - Scarcity of Writing ...
... Dialects - English Names of Places chiefly Anglo - Saxon - Classification of Anglo - Saxon MSS . desirable -Destruction of Libraries in the ravages of the Danes , and during the Civil Wars of York and Lancaster - Scarcity of Writing ...
Page xii
... Utility of A.-S. in Philology - Dialects - Numerical strength of the Saxon - Names of Persons and Places , & c . — Religion— Plan of Study - Conclusion , 162-180 UNIVE C. 30 618 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ANGLO - SAXON xii CONTENTS .
... Utility of A.-S. in Philology - Dialects - Numerical strength of the Saxon - Names of Persons and Places , & c . — Religion— Plan of Study - Conclusion , 162-180 UNIVE C. 30 618 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ANGLO - SAXON xii CONTENTS .
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... dialects of the North and West vary so much , that it is with considerable difficulty the na- tives of each understand one another in conversation ; and nearly the same may be said to exist in those of the mid - land counties ...
... dialects of the North and West vary so much , that it is with considerable difficulty the na- tives of each understand one another in conversation ; and nearly the same may be said to exist in those of the mid - land counties ...
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... dialect of the date of 1340 , * presents a character at least a century older , and even may be termed Semi - Saxon . The Vision of Piers Plowman by no means appears to belong to the period in which it is supposed to have been written ...
... dialect of the date of 1340 , * presents a character at least a century older , and even may be termed Semi - Saxon . The Vision of Piers Plowman by no means appears to belong to the period in which it is supposed to have been written ...
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... dialect more hard than any of the former , ( as neerer the Saxon , because farther from the Norman , ) yet with helpe of the Latine I made shifte to understand it , and read the booke more than once from the beginning to the end ...
... dialect more hard than any of the former , ( as neerer the Saxon , because farther from the Norman , ) yet with helpe of the Latine I made shifte to understand it , and read the booke more than once from the beginning to the end ...
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Page 37 - Antiqvitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons tyme, aboue 600.
Page 26 - Unyversytees of thys reahne are not all clere in this detestable fact. ... I knowe a merchaunt man, whych shall at thys tyme be namelesse, that boughte the contentes of two noble Lybraryes for xl shyllynges pryce : a shame it is to be spoken. Thys stuffe hath he occupyed in the stede of graye paper by the space of more than these x yeares ; and yet he hath store ynough for as many yeares to come.
Page 48 - The Italian is pleasant but without sinews, as a still fleeting water. The French, delicate, but even nice as a woman, scarce daring to open her lips for fear of marring her countenance. The Spanish, majestical, but fulsome, running too much on the O, and terrible like the devil in a play. The Dutch, manlike, but withal very harsh, as one ready at every word to pick a quarrel.
Page 31 - madam I may not call you, and mistress I am ashamed to call you, so I know not what to call you, but yet I do thank you.
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Page 40 - Euangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons, newly collected out of Auncient Monumentes of the sayd Saxons, and now published for testimonie of the same at London.