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... Romance words were used so far back as the Thirteenth Century . With the help of our old writers , I mark the ad- vance of our tongue ; much as the changes in English Architecture for four hundred and fifty years may be traced by the ...
... Romance words were used so far back as the Thirteenth Century . With the help of our old writers , I mark the ad- vance of our tongue ; much as the changes in English Architecture for four hundred and fifty years may be traced by the ...
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... Romance of Alexander The New English , where compounded 1300. Few new Teutonic idioms since this date CHAPTER III . THE RISE OF THE NEW ENGLISH . A.D. 1303 . Robert of Brunne in Lincolnshire 1303. His Work , The Handlyng Synne His ...
... Romance of Alexander The New English , where compounded 1300. Few new Teutonic idioms since this date CHAPTER III . THE RISE OF THE NEW ENGLISH . A.D. 1303 . Robert of Brunne in Lincolnshire 1303. His Work , The Handlyng Synne His ...
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... Romances Englished Our French words for soldiering French employed by lawyers The number of new French words These take ... Romance 1303. French brought in by Robert of Brunne Jolly , party , divers , nice 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 ...
... Romances Englished Our French words for soldiering French employed by lawyers The number of new French words These take ... Romance 1303. French brought in by Robert of Brunne Jolly , party , divers , nice 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 ...
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... Romances - The Ballad revived 1830. Cobbett - Monk's Life of Bentley · 1870. Speeches of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright 1873. Mr. Tennyson , Mr. Morris . 303 · 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 . 315 316 317 318 319 Table of ...
... Romances - The Ballad revived 1830. Cobbett - Monk's Life of Bentley · 1870. Speeches of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright 1873. Mr. Tennyson , Mr. Morris . 303 · 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 . 315 316 317 318 319 Table of ...
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... Romance , and Penny - a - lining Parable of a maiden's dress Sometimes neat , sometimes outrageous Chaucer's advice to fine writers CHAPTER VII . TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS OF ENGLISH . 680. Lines on the Ruthwell Cross 737. Lines by Cadmon ...
... Romance , and Penny - a - lining Parable of a maiden's dress Sometimes neat , sometimes outrageous Chaucer's advice to fine writers CHAPTER VII . TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS OF ENGLISH . 680. Lines on the Ruthwell Cross 737. Lines by Cadmon ...
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adjective adverbs akin Ancren Riwle Anglian become Bible called Camden Society charyte Chaucer clipped comes compiled compound corruption Crist Danelagh Danish diction Dutch Early English Text EAST MIDLAND EAST MIDLAND DIALECT employed ending England English Text Society French words German gode Greek Handlyng Synne Harrowing of Hell Havelok hevene himm Homilies hundred Icelandic idiom King later Latin Layamon letter Lincolnshire London Lord North Northern nouns obsolete Old English old words Ormulum Orrmin Participle patt Peterborough Chronicle phrase Plural poem prefix preposition prose Psalter replaces the old rimes Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Sanscrit seen sense shires sone sound South Southern specimen speech Standard English substantive Teutonic words Thirteenth Century thou tongue translated turned tyme Tyndale verb wass Wickliffe wipp write written Yorkshire žat
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