An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1837 - English language |
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... watir downe : ' Bewray me not , thou watir , with thy soune , ' Quoth she ; To the I tell it , and no mo ; Mine husbande hath long ass ' is eris two . " CHAUCER . Johnson defines BOMBAST by FUSTIAN , and clearly conceives the two terms ...
... watir downe : ' Bewray me not , thou watir , with thy soune , ' Quoth she ; To the I tell it , and no mo ; Mine husbande hath long ass ' is eris two . " CHAUCER . Johnson defines BOMBAST by FUSTIAN , and clearly conceives the two terms ...
Page 185
... watir and a barge , And in the halle rowin up and doun , Sometime hath semid come a grim lioun , And sometime flouris spring as in a mede , Sometime a vine , and grapis , white and rede , Sometime a castill alle of lime and stone , And ...
... watir and a barge , And in the halle rowin up and doun , Sometime hath semid come a grim lioun , And sometime flouris spring as in a mede , Sometime a vine , and grapis , white and rede , Sometime a castill alle of lime and stone , And ...
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analogous Anglo-Saxon aspirate belongs bend Bije BILDERDIJK bring called CHAUCER chop contracted participle present derives dialect dije dijen direction of sense Doogh Dutch ellipsis etymology evidently explained expression favour fellow female fetch fool formerly spelt French German grete grounded groundedly hand head heart heet heeten Hence herte hold hoon HORNE TOOKE horse HUDIBRAS IBID IDEM ijse implying import intermutating Italian JOHNSON says keye labour language Latin literal form maie meaning mede meê metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite pronounce prosopopoeia question quoth regard Saxon schie semid SHAKSPEARE shrewd sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect taele tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE toyen travesty trope turn utter verb whence Wijse word wote