Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book, With Inflections, Syntax, Selections, for Reading, and Glossary (Classic Reprint)

It is intended for beginners, and in writing it, these words of Sir Thomas Elyot have not been forgotten: Grammer, beinge but an introduction to the understandinge of autors, if it be made to longe or exquisite to the lerner, it in a inaner rnortifieth his corage: And by that time he cometh to the most swete and pleasant redinge of olde autors, the sparkes of fervent desire of lernynge are extincte with the burdone of grammer, lyke as a lyttell fyre is sone quenched with a great heape of small stickes. The Governour, Cap. X. Only the essentials, therefore, are treated in this work, which is planned more as a foundation for the study of Modem English grammar, of historical English grammar, and of the principles of English etymology, than as a general introduction toG ermanic philology. The Exercises in translation will, it is believed, furnish all the drill necessary to enable the student to retain the forms and constructions given in the various chapters. The Selections for Heading relate to the history and literature of King Alfred sday, and are sufficient to give the student a first-hand, though brief, acquaintance with the native style and idiom of Early West Saxon prose in its golden age. Most of the words and constructions contained in them will be already familiar to the student through their intentional employment in theE
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