A History of the Reflective Pronouns in the English LanguageH. Frese, 1875 - 64 pages |
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... century . ,, Him " instead of „ hine " . Already 1036 ( Sax . Chron . Mscr . Bodl . Laud . 636 and Cott . Domit . A VIII ) : And Leófric eorl and maest ealle pâ þegenas be norđan Temese and pâ lidsmen on Lunden gecuron Harold tô healdes ...
... century . ,, Him " instead of „ hine " . Already 1036 ( Sax . Chron . Mscr . Bodl . Laud . 636 and Cott . Domit . A VIII ) : And Leófric eorl and maest ealle pâ þegenas be norđan Temese and pâ lidsmen on Lunden gecuron Harold tô healdes ...
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... century ) makes a strict distinction between the accusat . „ hine " and the dative " him " , whilst Laz . B ( written about 1250 ) mostly writes him in both cases , rarely „ hine " ( ine ) in the accusative . These seem to be the last ...
... century ) makes a strict distinction between the accusat . „ hine " and the dative " him " , whilst Laz . B ( written about 1250 ) mostly writes him in both cases , rarely „ hine " ( ine ) in the accusative . These seem to be the last ...
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... century , we find for the oblique cases of the first and second persons double forms , which can be traced down to the close of the 15. century . These double forms have always been the most diffi- cult point in the explanation of the ...
... century , we find for the oblique cases of the first and second persons double forms , which can be traced down to the close of the 15. century . These double forms have always been the most diffi- cult point in the explanation of the ...
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... century . Together with the appearance of these new forms a decay in the inflection of ,, sellf " becomes visible . In place of ,, sellfenn " in the Orm . and of ,, seolfan , seolfne , suluen " in Laz . A , we find already in the Ancren ...
... century . Together with the appearance of these new forms a decay in the inflection of ,, sellf " becomes visible . In place of ,, sellfenn " in the Orm . and of ,, seolfan , seolfne , suluen " in Laz . A , we find already in the Ancren ...
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... century exclusively the forms : ,, us sellfenn , us seoluen , us seolve , ous seolve " for the dat . and accus . of the first person . The forms , 3uw sellfenn , eow seoluen , 30u seolue , ou suluen , ou sulf " for both cases of the ...
... century exclusively the forms : ,, us sellfenn , us seoluen , us seolve , ous seolve " for the dat . and accus . of the first person . The forms , 3uw sellfenn , eow seoluen , 30u seolue , ou suluen , ou sulf " for both cases of the ...
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accessory sentence accus adjective Aelfr Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language Annd Beóv bote butan bute buten buton Chaucer Chron conditional sentence Crist dative ealle Elene Engl eóv examples exceptive sentence femin forms Genes genitive gode Goldsm gram heom heora himm hine sylfne hire hise inflection instance language mäg masc Mätzner Maundev meaning Metra Metra XX môde modern English Myst Negative principal sentence negative sentence occurs Ormulum Oros passage pät personal pronouns pleonastic dative Ploughm plur plural number possessive preposition reenforcing pronouns reflective pronouns reflective relation reflective sense Riwle Scott selfa selfe sellf sellfenn Semi-Saxon seolf seolfum seolue seoluen silf simple personal pronouns singul Spenser substantive svâ sylf sylfra sylfum tence third person thou verb whilst Wicl Wycl þâ þaer þam þät þatt þing þurh
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Page 38 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled, The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Page 44 - I will conclude this first fruit of friendship, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves; for there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
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Page 59 - In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room Throng numberless...
Page 54 - Morar, thou art low indeed. Thou hast no mother to mourn thee; no maid with her tears of love. Dead is she that brought thee forth. Fallen is the daughter of Morglan. Who on his staff is this? who is this whose head is white with age?
Page 45 - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green But a sweet-brier entwines it around. Not my fields, in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
Page 22 - Bote if hoe wende hire mod, For serewe mon ich wakese wod, Other miselve quelle. Ich hevede i-thout miself to slo ; For then radde a frend me go To the mi sereve telle.
Page 44 - Ay, your times were fine times indeed; you have been telling us of them for many a long year. Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company.
Page 68 - I vow, Mr Hardcastle, you're very particular. Is there a creature in the whole country, but ourselves, that does not take a trip to town now and then, to rub off the rust a little?
Page 38 - And now we leave the camp, and descend towards the west, and are on the Ash-down. We are treading on heroes. It is . sacred ground for Englishmen, more sacred than all but one or two fields where their bones lie whitening. For this is the actual place where our Alfred won his great battle, the battle of Ashdown ("^Escendum" in the chroniclers), which broke the Danish power, and made England a Christian land.