Excerpt from Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Historical Introduction and Notes Language, which in the written literature Of a country is ever varying, sufi'ers no material changes nor corruptions among the lower and uneducated classes of society by whom it is spoken as their mother tongue. With them, primitive forms of speech, peculiar idiomatick expressions, and antique phrases are still in use which we would look for in vain in the literature of the present day, or in its word-books, which are not ...
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Excerpt from Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Historical Introduction and Notes Language, which in the written literature Of a country is ever varying, sufi'ers no material changes nor corruptions among the lower and uneducated classes of society by whom it is spoken as their mother tongue. With them, primitive forms of speech, peculiar idiomatick expressions, and antique phrases are still in use which we would look for in vain in the literature of the present day, or in its word-books, which are not professedly dedicated to the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence. It is not, there fore, with the unlettered and the rude that oral song sufi'ers vital and irremediable wrong. What they have received from their forefathers, they transmit in the same shape to their children for, as the Pardoners in the Canterbury Tales has justly remarked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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