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Excerpt from A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader: Archaic and DialectalMY First anglo-saxon Reader is, for practical reasons, restricted to the west-saxon dialect. But the other Old English dialects are of equal-wif not even more - value to the historical student of English. Hence the necessity of a sup plementary archaic and dialectal Reader. The primary object of the present book is, accordingly, to give the student - as far as the often scanty mate...

Excerpt from First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum, With Grammar, Notes, and GlossaryThe object of this work is not to afford a general survey of the Middle English dialects in their different periods, but rather to lay a firm foundation for such a survey by giving extracts from the two oldest texts which have been handed down in consistent, contemporary spellings representing pure and fixed dialects, one dial...

Excerpt from First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum, With Grammar, Notes, and GlossaryThe object of this work is not to afford a general survey of the Middle English dialects in their different periods, but rather to lay a firm foundation for such a survey by giving extracts from the two oldest texts which have been handed down in consistent, contemporary spellings representing pure and fixed dialects, one dial...

Excerpt from A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader: Archaic and DialecticalAll the texts are complete in themselves with the exception of the extracts from the Liber Vitae (4) and the Durham and Rushworth glosses The Hymns in the Vespasian Psalter are given in full, no extracts from the Psalms themselves being 1ven.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book i...

Excerpt from A Primer of Spoken EnglishThe comparative purity and correctness of the different varieties of spoken English is popularly estimated by the degree of approximation to the written language. But these comparisons are generally carried out in a one sided and partial spirit. When an Englishman hears the distinct r and gfi in the Broad Scotch fartfier, might, etc., he is apt to assume at once that Scotch English is more archaic than So...

Excerpt from An Anglo-Saxon Primer: With Grammar, Notes, and GlossaryMy main principle has been to make the book the easiest possible introduction to the study of old-english.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work...

Excerpt from A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader: Archaic and DialecticalAll the texts are complete in themselves with the exception of the extracts from the Liber Vitae (4) and the Durham and Rushworth glosses The Hymns in the Vespasian Psalter are given in full, no extracts from the Psalms themselves being 1ven.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book i...

Excerpt from A Primer of Spoken EnglishThe comparative purity and correctness of the different varieties of spoken English is popularly estimated by the degree of approximation to the written language. But these comparisons are generally carried out in a one, sided and partial Spirit. When an Englishman hears the distinct r and g}: in the Broad Scotch [art/ref, might, etc., he is apt to assume at once that Scotch English is more archaic than S...

Excerpt from First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum, With Grammar and GlossaryOf the literary merits of the Ormulum little can be said, for it has none whatever. The author was, in fact, a spelling reformer and philologist who mistook his vocation. The Old E. Picturesqueness and power disappears entirely from his verse together with the traditional alliteration, and the only compensation is a dry, practical dir...

Excerpt from A Primer of Spoken EnglishEnglish had become the official and literary language of the whole kingdom, it was natural that the same dialect in its spoken form should become the general speech of the educated classes, and that as centralization increased, it should preponderate more and more over the local dialects. But the unity of spoken English is still imperfect: it is still liable to be in¿uenced by the local dialects - in Lond...

Excerpt from First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum, With Grammar and GlossaryOf the literary merits of the Ormulum little can be said, for it has none whatever. The author was, in fact, a spelling reformer and philologist who mistook his vocation. The Old E. Picturesqueness and power disappears entirely from his verse together with the traditional alliteration, and the only compensation is a dry, practical dir...

Excerpt from An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse: With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and GlossaryIn a work of limited extent like the present it is necessary to exercise definite p_rinciples of selection both as regards the texts themselves and their illustration and elucidation. Hence the w ofhall dialectal specimens, both as requiring a disproportionate amount of comment, and as tending to confuse the student's ideas. Hence also the ...

Excerpt from First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum, With Grammar and GlossaryOf the literary ments of the Orrnulum little can be said, for it has none whatever. The author was, in fact, a spelling reformer and philologist who mistook his vocation. The Old E. Picturesqueness and power disappears entirely from his verse together with the traditional alliteration, and the only compensation is a dry, practical dir...

Excerpt from A Primer of Spoken EnglishEnglish had become the ofiicial and literary language of the whole kingdom, it was natural that the same dialect in its spoken form should become the general speech of the educated classes, and that as centralization increased, it should preponderate more and more over the local dialects. But the unity of spoken English is still imperfect: it is still liable to be in¿uenced by the local dialects - in Lond...

Excerpt from First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum, With Grammar and GlossaryOf the literary ments of the Orrnulum little can be said, for it has none whatever. The author was, in fact, a spelling reformer and philologist who mistook his vocation. The Old E. Picturesqueness and power disappears entirely from his verse together with the traditional alliteration, and the only compensation is a dry, practical dir...

Excerpt from An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse: With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and GlossaryTms book is intended to provide the student with a series of texts in the classical west-saxon dialect of Old English, with such helps in the way of Grammar, Glossary, and Notes, as shall enable him to acquire a sound ele mentary knowledge of the language, without, at the same time, neglecting the literature. Care has been taken to represen...

Excerpt from The Oldest English Texts: Edited With Introductions and a GlossaryThis collection is intended to include all the extant old-english texts up to about goo that are preserved in contemporary mss., with the exception of the Chronicle and the works of Alfred. Most of the texts have been published before, but many of them, °especially the glossaries, in a very inaccurate and defective form. All the texts here given have been corrected ...

Excerpt from First Middle English Primer: Extracts From the Ancren Riwle and Ormulum, With Grammar, Notes, and GlossaryOf the literary merits of the Ormulum little can be said, for it has none whatever. The author was, in fact, a spelling reformer and philologist who mistook his vocation. The Old E. Picturesqueness and power disappears entirely from his verse together with the traditional alliteration, and the only compensation is a dry, pract...

Excerpt from An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse: With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and GlossaryIn a work of limited extent like the present it is necessary to exercise definite p_rinciples of selection both as regards the texts themselves and their illustration and elucidation. Hence the w ofhall dialectal specimens, both as requiring a disproportionate amount of comment, and as tending to confuse the student's ideas. Hence also the ...

Excerpt from A Primer of Spoken EnglishEnglish had become the official and literary language of the whole kingdom, it was natural that the same dialect in its spoken form should become the general speech of the educated classes, and that as centralization increased, it should preponderate more and more over the local dialects. But the unity of spoken English is still imperfect: it is still liable to be in¿uenced by the local dialects - in Lond...