| Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 442 pages
...judgment's seat ; in vain did lie long disdain to learn the language of the enslaved Saxon. For a OO time the two idioms lived side by side, though in...barons : the other, the language of the conquered, Bpokfii only in the lowly hut of the subjugated people. The Norman altered and increased the latter,... | |
| George Cumming McWhorter - Theology, Doctrinal - 1864 - 184 pages
...dissertation upon the subject in the first chapter of Ivanhoe. "- The two idioms," says De Yere, " for a time lived side by side, though in very different conditions...spoken only in the lowly hut of the subjugated people." Hence, from the structure of society Norman English was considered polite, Saxon English vulgar. The... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...Norman nobles long disdain to learn the language of the enslaved English. For a time the two tongues lived side by side, though in very different conditions...language of the conquered, spoken only in the lowly huts of the subjugated people. The Norman altered and 'increased the latter, but he could not 'extirpate... | |
| English language - 1879 - 106 pages
...the Conquest, but in the later of the two periods mentioned above : — For a time, the two tongues lived side by side, though in very different conditions:...language of the conquered, spoken only in the lowly huts of the subjugated people. The Norman altered and increased the latter, but he could not extirpate... | |
| Thomas Nelson Publishers - Books and reading - 1893 - 444 pages
...Norman nobles long disdain to learn the language of the enslaved English. For a time the two tongues lived side by side, though in very different conditions...language of the conquered, spoken only in the lowly huts of the subjugated people. The Norman altered and 'increased the latter, but he could not 'extirpate... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1907 - 160 pages
...the Conquest, but in the latter of the two periods mentioned above : — " For a time the two tongues lived side by side, though in very different conditions...language of the conquered, spoken only in the lowly huts of the subjugated people. " The Norman altered and increased the latter, but he could not extirpate... | |
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