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Outline of the history of the English language and literature

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. . .Part I., Act ii)91“ Milton (Paradise Lost, Book VI.)80“ Swift (John Bull)85“ Johnson (Preface to Dictionary)72“ Gibbon (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I., cap. vii.)70“ Macaulay (Essay on Lord Bacon)75“ Tennyson (In Memoriam, first twenty poems)89“

16. CHANGES IN ENGLISH.—Let us take a passage from the Saxon translation of the Old Testament—and it is the oldest English version we have—and notice what differences there are between this English and the English of the present day. This translation was made by Abbot Ælfric, who lived and wrote late in the tenth century. He translated into English the five books of Moses—commonly called the Pentateuch—Joshua, Judges, and part of the book of Job. Let us see how he writes (Genesis, ix. 1):

God blett̃sodeGod blessed Noe and his sunaNoah and his sons and cväd hem tô:and quoth to them: VeahxađWax (ye) and be. . . Read More