Touch, trail, single, afraid

Certain, passing, bondage

English roots take French endings

The decay of Teutonic words arrested

Corruption of the Franciscan Order

1360. Robert's words need explanation

Gradual loss of Old English Words

Table of Words, Obsolete and Romance

1303. French brought in by Robert of Brunne

Jolly, party, divers, nice

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CHAPTER V.

THE NEW ENGLISH.

A.D. 1303-1873.

English differs from other Literatures

Each shire had its own speech

Norse influence in England

1303. The East Midland advances Southwards

Contrast between it and the London speech

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Belike, bi and bi, scarcely, menes

1432. Letters written by knights- Warwick

Suffolk's letter to his son

1447. East Anglian Letters-Shillingford

1450. Pecock's Repressor

The Word unless-Good Prose

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A.D.

1583.

1611.

Influence of our Version

Romanism adverse to our Literature

The Reformation unites England and Scotland
The Bible a bond for the Angel cyn

1550. Wilson's criticism-Shakespere .
1590. Spenser-Our Golden Age.

The form its-Loss of Old Forms
1640. Strafford's Thorough-Milton
His Lycidas-Bunyan

1650. The Change in English Prose

1750. Johnson's Corruptions

The Study of Sanscrit

1810. Scott, Byron, Coleridge

1820. Scott's Romances-The Ballad revived

1830. Cobbett-Monk's Life of Bentley

1870. Speeches of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright

1873. Mr. Tennyson, Mr. Morris.

A.D.

English not taught at schools

Good influence of the Classics

Punch a good English critic

We borrow from all sides.

We send our own staple abroad

Bad English of a Queen's Speech

Watchwords of English History

Simplicity recommended by Mr. Freeman

We have improved on our fathers

Three ways of writing English

Teutonic, Romance, and Penny-a-lining

Parable of a maiden's dress

Sometimes neat, sometimes outrageous

Chaucer's advice to fine writers

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