 Saxon language was abandoned to the lowest of the people, and while the conquerors only deigned to employ their native French, the mixed language, now called English, only existed as a kind of lingua franca, to conduct the necessary intercourse between...  The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: Sir Tristram - Page xlixby Walter Scott - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1864 - 426 pages
...necessary intercourse between the victors and the vanquished. It was not till the reign of Henry the Third that this dialect had assumed a shape fit for the...while all who aspired above the vulgar listened to 3 Introduction to the Romance of Sit Tristrem, by Sir Walter Scott, pp. 52, 53. the lais of Marie,... | |
 | George Wheelwright - 1875 - 98 pages
...them/ — [/6.] FABLIAUX, ib. pi. (Fr.) Ancient metrical French tales. •Even then (temp. Henry III) it is most probable that English poetry, if any such...vulgar listened to the lais of Marie, the romances of Chrestien de Troves, or the interesting fabliaux of the Anglo-Norman trouvcurs.' — [1804. Sir W.... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 pages
...victors and the vanquished. It was not till the reign of Henry III. that this dialect had a.-*umed a shape fit for the purposes of the poet ; and even then the indolence or taste of the minstrels of that period induced them to prefer translating the Anglo-Norman... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pages
...between the victors and the vanquished. It was not till the reign of Henry IH.'that this dialect bad assumed a shape fit for the purposes of the poet ; and even then the indolence or taste of the minstrels of that period induced them to prefer translating the Anglo-Norman... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 534 pages
...lingua franca, to conduct the necessary intercourse between the victor"s and the van-"*"" quished. It was not till the reign of Henry III. that this...had assumed a shape fit for the purposes of the poet ; 2 and even then, it is most probable that English poetry, if any such existed, •was abandoned to... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1887 - 848 pages
...necessary intercourse between the victors and the vanquished. It was not till the reign of Henry the Third that this dialect had assumed a shape fit for the...poet ; and even then it is most probable that English puetry, if any such existed, was abandoned to the peasants and menials ; while all who aspired above... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 542 pages
...employ their native French, the mixed language, now called English, only existed as a kind of lin9ua franca, to conduct the necessary intercourse between...had assumed a shape fit for the purposes of the poet ; 8 and even then, it is most probable that English poetry, if any such existed, was abandoned to the... | |
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