The Transition from the Impersonal to the Personal Construction in Middle EnglishSwets & Zeitlinger, 1904 - 168 pàgines |
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14th century aght Battle of Maldon Beowulf better Boethius broght Camb Cant Caxton Chaucer Conf constr construction Curs Cursor Cursor Mundi dative Destr dreme drempte early M. E. English forto Generydes Gesta Rom Gower Guy of Warw Hamp Hampole Hamt Harl haue herte hine Hoccleve Ibid instances King Horn leef leuer lever lief loth lust lyst Merlin methinks Metres Middle English Midl Midland Myst N. E. Leg noght Northern dialect noun O. E. Hom occurs oghte Orosius pencan penk phrase Piers Pl Piers Plowman pink pinkep Poems preterite pronoun puhte punchen quoted remembreth repente rewe Reynard rhymes semed Shakespeare shal shame Skeat smerte sore Synne texts thee thoght thou thynke transl Troil type A verb vols Warw whan wolde Wycl Wyclif þæt þan þat þis þou
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Pàgina 55 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Pàgina 132 - His woning was ful fair up-on an heeth, With grene trees shadwed was his place. He coude bettre than his lord purchace. Ful riche he was astored...
Pàgina 139 - He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Pàgina 61 - Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them : behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.
Pàgina 75 - ... experience of ill, contrary to the good order of many good old commonwealths of the Persians and Greeks ; of wit gathered, and good fortune gotten by some, only by experience without learning. And, lastly, he required of me very earnestly to...
Pàgina 114 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Pàgina 74 - In these far climes it was my lot To meet the wondrous Michael Scott ; A wizard of such dreaded fame That when, in Salamanca's cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame...
Pàgina 23 - To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, And eek in what array that they were inne; And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.
Pàgina 106 - quo' he, " were I as free As first when I saw this countrie, How blyth and merry wad I be ! And I wad nevir think lang.