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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 An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse: With Grammatical Introduction, Notes, and GlossaryThis 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 N otes, as shall enable him to acquire a sound elementary knowledge of the language, without, at the same time, neglecting the literature. Care has been taken to represe...

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 GlossaryThis 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 N otes, as shall enable him to acquire a sound elementary knowledge of the language, without, at the same time, neglecting the literature. Care has been taken to represe...

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 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 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 An Anglo-Saxon Primer: With Grammar, Notes, and GlossaryThe want of an introduction to the study of old-english has long been felt. Vernon's anglo-saxon Guide was an admirable book for its time, but has long been completely antiquated. I was therefore obliged to make my Anglo Saxon Reader a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise be tween an elementary primer and a manual for advanced students, but I always looked forward to producing ...

Excerpt from An Anglo-Saxon Primer: With Grammar, Notes, and GlossaryTan want of an introduction to the study of old-english has long been felt. Vernon's anglo-saxon Guide was an admirable book for its time, but has long been completely antiquated. I was therefore obliged to make my Anglo Saxon Reader a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise be tween an elementary primer and a manual for advanced students, but I always looked forward to producing ...

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 An Anglo-Saxon Primer: With Grammar, Notes, and GlossaryThe want of an introduction to the study of old-english has long been felt. Vernon's anglo-saxon Guide was an admirable book for its time, but has long been completely antiquated. I was therefore obliged to make my Anglo Saxon Reader a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise be tween an elementary primer and a manual for advanced students, but I always looked forward to producing ...

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 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 An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse: With Grammar, Metre, Notes and GlossaryPrimer, a series of texts which will give a general knowledge of the language in its chief periods and dialects, without neglecting the interests of literary and antiquarian study.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 ...

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 An Anglo-Saxon Primer: With Grammar, Notes, and GlossaryTan want of an introduction to the study of old-english has long been felt. Vernon's anglo-saxon Guide was an admirable book for its time, but has long been completely antiquated. I was therefore obliged to make my Anglo Saxon Reader a somewhat unsatisfactory compromise be tween an elementary primer and a manual for advanced students, but I always looked forward to producing ...

Excerpt from An Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse: With Grammar, Metre, Notes and GlossaryPrimer, a series of texts which will give a general knowledge of the language in its chief periods and dialects, without neglecting the interests of literary and antiquarian study.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 ...

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 elementary knowledge of the language, without, at the same time, neglecting the literature. Care has been taken to represent...

Excerpt from Second Middle English Primer: Extracts From Chaucer, With Grammar and GlossaryIn the present edition I have cut out most of the ms. Readings, as I consider such details super¿uous in a book of this character. I have, of course, carefully revised the phonetic notation. I have not added any notes, for which I must refer the reader to the editions of Professor Skeat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

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