A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest. With Numerous SpecimensGriffin, 1867 - 536 pagina's |
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... French in many things ; for example , all the nobility in their courts began to speak French as a great piece of gentility , to draw up their charters and other writings after the French fashion , and to grow ashamed of their old ...
... French in many things ; for example , all the nobility in their courts began to speak French as a great piece of gentility , to draw up their charters and other writings after the French fashion , and to grow ashamed of their old ...
Pagina 83
... French verse , ex- presses himself thus : - Certes there ben some that speke thyr poysy mater in Frenche , of whyche speche the Frenche men have as good a fantasye as we have in hearing of French mennes Englyshe . " And afterwards he ...
... French verse , ex- presses himself thus : - Certes there ben some that speke thyr poysy mater in Frenche , of whyche speche the Frenche men have as good a fantasye as we have in hearing of French mennes Englyshe . " And afterwards he ...
Pagina 102
... French ; the French original cannot in every case be produced ; but it is at least extremely doubtful if any such work was ever composed in English except upon the foundation of a similar French work . It is no objection that the ...
... French ; the French original cannot in every case be produced ; but it is at least extremely doubtful if any such work was ever composed in English except upon the foundation of a similar French work . It is no objection that the ...
Inhoudsopgave
The Languages of Modern Europe | 1 |
The Celtic Languages and Literatures | 7 |
Original English commonly called Saxon or AngloSaxon | 15 |
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