Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volume 1Nicol, 1803 - 424 pages |
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... known that our English is a compound of the Anglo - Saxon ( previously adulterated with a mixture of the Danish ) , and of the Norman - French : but the proportion in which these elements were combined , at any period of our history ...
... known that our English is a compound of the Anglo - Saxon ( previously adulterated with a mixture of the Danish ) , and of the Norman - French : but the proportion in which these elements were combined , at any period of our history ...
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... known that the Welsh soldiers who served in our army at the siege of Bellisle ( in the war of 1756 ) , found little difficulty in understanding the language of the Bretons . The Sclavonian sailors , employed on board of Venetian ships ...
... known that the Welsh soldiers who served in our army at the siege of Bellisle ( in the war of 1756 ) , found little difficulty in understanding the language of the Bretons . The Sclavonian sailors , employed on board of Venetian ships ...
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... known , that the Franks who conquered Gaul , and his own an- cestors who subdued Neustria , had not been able to substitute the Teutonic for the Romance lan- guage in their dominions ; that the measure was not at all necessary to the ...
... known , that the Franks who conquered Gaul , and his own an- cestors who subdued Neustria , had not been able to substitute the Teutonic for the Romance lan- guage in their dominions ; that the measure was not at all necessary to the ...
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... and enslaved people ; but it continued to exist . Indeed , the obscurity of our earliest poets is well known to arise from this source ; and the subsequent influx of French words , which gradually formed the Anglo- Norman [ 39 ]
... and enslaved people ; but it continued to exist . Indeed , the obscurity of our earliest poets is well known to arise from this source ; and the subsequent influx of French words , which gradually formed the Anglo- Norman [ 39 ]
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... Langage , supposes the earliest troubadours of eminence , WILLIAM COUNT OF POITIERS , and RAYMOND COUNT OF THOU- LOUSE , to have flourished in 1071 and 1092 , so that the only known poet confessedly anterior to the reign [ 40 ]
... Langage , supposes the earliest troubadours of eminence , WILLIAM COUNT OF POITIERS , and RAYMOND COUNT OF THOU- LOUSE , to have flourished in 1071 and 1092 , so that the only known poet confessedly anterior to the reign [ 40 ]
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