 | 1833 - 270 strani
...people, as appears by King Alfred's paraphrase, or imitation of Boethius. " About the year 1150 the Saxon began to take a form, in which the beginning of the present English may be plainly discovered. It is not, however, so much changed by the admixture of Norman words as... | |
 | Arthur James Johnes - 1843 - 350 strani
...Johnson thus expresses himself in the following remarkable passage: "About the year 1150 the Saxon began to take a form in " which the beginning of the present English may be plainly " discovered; this change seems not to have been the effect " of the Norman conquest,... | |
 | Joseph Berington - 1846 - 532 strani
...it suddenly became English. " About the year 1 150," observes our great lexicographer,1 "the Saxon began to take a form, in which, the beginning of the present English may be plainly discovered. This change seems not to have been the effect of the Norman conquest, for... | |
 | Arthur James Johnes - 1846 - 348 strani
...Johnson thus expresses himself in the following remarkable passage: "About the year 1150 the Saxon began to take a form in "which the beginning of the present English may be plainly " discovered; this change seems not to have been the effect " of the Norman conquest,... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 strani
...when Saxon may be said to cease, and the English to commence. " About the year 1150, the Saxon begun to take a form in which the beginning of the present English may be plainly discovered: this change seems not"to have been the effect of the Norman conquest, for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 strani
...foppost-d to have tx-en written ntxnit the year ПЛ8. About 1154, according to Dr Johnson, 'the Saxon fer'd Handfuls of gold but to behold thy parents. Knglish may pbiinly l>e discovered.' It doe« not, as already hint«!, contain many Norman words, but... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 strani
...commence Total and sudden transformations of a language seldom happen. About the year 1150 the Saxon began to take a form in which the beginning of the present English may be plainly discovered : this change seems not to have been the effect of the Norman Conquest, for... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 strani
...commence Total and sudden transformations of a language seldom happen. About the year 1150 the Saxon began to take a form in which the beginning of the present English may be plainly discovered : this change seems not to have been the effect of the Norman Conquest, for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 strani
...supposed to have been written about the year 1138. About 1154, according to Dr Johnson, 'the Saxon may plainly be discovered.' It does not, as already hinted, contain many Norman words, but its grammatical... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 strani
...supposed to have been written about 1138. About the year 1154, according to Dr. Johnson, the Saxon began to take a form in which the beginning of the present English may plainly be discovered. It does not, as already hinted, contain many Norman words, but its grammatical... | |
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The Saxon tongue of England decayed, but like the healthy seed in the ground it germinated again. The Saxon Chronicle which had been kept in the monasteries ceased abruptly on the accession of Henry II., 1154, and at the same period the Saxon language... 
