The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes [ &c.] by J.M.D. Meiklejohn1880 |
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... words ; how the language obstinately refused to adopt a foreign idiom ; how it increased the wealth of its treasures of expression by admitting Norman - French words in crowds ; and how it bears in itself the marks of all the historic ...
... words ; how the language obstinately refused to adopt a foreign idiom ; how it increased the wealth of its treasures of expression by admitting Norman - French words in crowds ; and how it bears in itself the marks of all the historic ...
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... words ; how the language obstinately refused to adopt a foreign idiom ; how it increased the wealth of its treasures of expression by admitting Norman - French words in crowds ; and how it bears in itself the marks of all the historic ...
... words ; how the language obstinately refused to adopt a foreign idiom ; how it increased the wealth of its treasures of expression by admitting Norman - French words in crowds ; and how it bears in itself the marks of all the historic ...
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... , who spoke the French of their day - the French of the valley of the For the loss of grammatical inflections the Language more than made up by the acquisition of large lower Seine , numbers of new words from the French language . Decrease.
... , who spoke the French of their day - the French of the valley of the For the loss of grammatical inflections the Language more than made up by the acquisition of large lower Seine , numbers of new words from the French language . Decrease.
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... words , one English and the other French , as a kind of colloquial dictionary or phrase - book to make themselves intelligible to each other . Chaucer avails himself of this bilingualism , * and has sometimes whole lines consisting of ...
... words , one English and the other French , as a kind of colloquial dictionary or phrase - book to make themselves intelligible to each other . Chaucer avails himself of this bilingualism , * and has sometimes whole lines consisting of ...
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... words were inflected in the oldest English ( or Anglo - Saxon ' ) just as German adjectives are inflected now . Like German adjectives also , they had a definite form and an indefinite form ( cf. Guter Mann and Der gute Mann ) . The ...
... words were inflected in the oldest English ( or Anglo - Saxon ' ) just as German adjectives are inflected now . Like German adjectives also , they had a definite form and an indefinite form ( cf. Guter Mann and Der gute Mann ) . The ...
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Page 15 - PERSOUN of a toun; But riche he was of holy thoght and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, 480 That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 19 - Ful riche he was astored prively, His lord wel coude he plesen subtilly, 610 To geve and lene him of his owne good, And have a thank, and yet a cote and hood, In youthe he lerned hadde a good mister ; He was a wel good wrighte, a carpenter. This reve sat up-on a ful good stot.
Page 11 - At Alisaundre he was whan it was wonne. Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne Aboven alle nacions in Pruce; In Lettow hadde he reysed and in Ruce, No Cristen man so ofte of his degree.
Page 11 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 11 - Of studie took he moost cure and moost heede. Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence; Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
Page 12 - Poynaunt and scharp, and redy al his gere. His table dormant in his halle alway Stood redy covered al the longe day. At sessiouns ther was he lord and sire.
Page 11 - Redy to wenden on my pilgrimage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage, At night was come in-to that hostelrye Wel nyne and twenty in a companye, Of sondry folk, by aventure y-falle In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde ; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.
Page 20 - Com hider, love, to me. This sompnour bar to him a stif burdoun, Was nevere trompe of half so gret a soun...
Page 11 - With frankeleyns overal in his contree; And eek with worthy wommen of the toun, For he hadde power of confessioun, As seyde himself, more than a curat, For of his ordre he was licentiat.
Page 13 - Burdeuxward, whil that the chapman sleep. Of nyce conscience took he no keep; If that he faught, and hadde the hyer hond, By water he sente hem hoom to every lond.