The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar: With Copious Notes Illustrating the Structure of the Saxon and the Formation of the English Language : and a Grammatical Praxis with a Literal English Version : to which are Prefixed, Remarks on the History and Use of the Anglo-Saxon, and an Introduction, on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing, with Critical RemarksHarding, Mavor, and Lepard, 1823 - 332 pages |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
accusative adjective adjectived Adverbs alliteration alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language anpeald beon Boet called century consonants Dær Dan.-Sax Dano-Saxon Dative Declension denote derived ealle English Etym Etymology expressed feminine gender genitive Gothic Grammar Greek Hebrew hence heopa Hickes's hine imperative mood Indefinite Tense INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive mood inflection irregular verbs king language Latin letters mæg Masc masculine Matt miht modern Neut neuter Note nouns origin orthography pæne pæɲon pær past tense Perf perfect participle Perfect Tense person PLUR plural poetry polde prefixed prepositions Preterite pron pronouns Purley Rask's recze Roman sack Saxon sentence signifies SING singular sometimes sound speech SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantive syllable termination thee thing thou tion Uncials verse vowel words writing written þam þing
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Page xii - When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him ? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Page xiii - ... whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness, and others : it is in the first place then to be inquired, how he comes by them...
Page xii - Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Page viii - When they first landed, they were bands of fierce, ignorant, idolatrous, and superstitious pirates, enthusiastically courageous, but habitually cruel. Yet from such ancestors a nation has, in the course of twelve centuries, been formed, which, inferior to none in every moral and intellectual merit, is superior to every other in the love and possession of useful liberty : a nation which cultivates with equal success the elegancies of art, the ingenious labours of industry, the energies of war, the...
Page xii - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 57 - There are in English nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called, PARTS OF SPEECH...
Page ii - Our language, our government, and our laws, display our Gothic ancestors in every part : they live, not merely in our annals and traditions, but in our civil institutions and perpetual discourse.
Page 280 - Ealdormen and thegns about you, the fire blazing in the centre, and the whole hall cheered by its warmth, — and while storms of rain and snow are raging without, — a little sparrow flies in at one door, roams around our festive meeting, and passes out at some other entrance. While it is among us it feels not the wintry tempest. It enjoys the short comfort and serenity of its transient stay; but then, plunging into the winter from which it had flown, it disappears from our eyes. Such is here the...
Page 229 - So that of eighteen lines, the periphrasis occupies fourteen, and in so many lines only conveys three ideas; and all that the eighteen lines express is simply the first verse of the book of Genesis, " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Page 48 - This has wonderfully multiplied a letter which was before too frequent in the English tongue, and added to that hissing in our language which is taken so much notice of by foreigners, but at the same time humours our taciturnity and eases us of many superfluous syllables.