Questions tagged [early-modern-english]
Early Modern English was used from the late 15th century to the mid to late 17th century.
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1610 Meaning of 'occasion'
Source: Journals of the House of Lords (1610)
That whereas the House of Commons have already, among their Grievances, preferred a Petition to His Majesty, as of Right and Justice, That the Four ...
asked Oct 26 '14 at 14:54
Greek - Area 51 Proposal
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Why “him” in “For neuer resting time leads Summer on / To hidious winter and confounds him there, …” instead of it or her?
There is a passage in William's V sonnet that confounds me :
For neuer resting time leads Summer on,
To hidious winter and confounds him there,
Sap checkt with frost and lustie leau's quite gon.
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a conditional sentence with “had + past participle” in both the apodosis and the protasis
In older texts one finds this construction, which one may be tempted to call the past conditional second form (after the example of le conditionnel passé deuxième forme):
If you had lied to me, I ...
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Is “to say” in Hamlet's “and by a sleep to say we end” an infinitive or an adverb?
I was trying to identify the word classes of Hamlet's famous monologue "To be or not to be", and I'm really having trouble deciding what word class "to say" in "and by sleep to say we end the ...
