...and was wearing out so fast early in the eighteenth century, that its derisional adoption is felt by every one who reads the distich at the end of the...honour of kissing the hand of the Norman Conqueror. * I need not say that nil means will not, Chaucer also uses n'old for would not. ( Will he, nil he,...

...century the double negative was evidently treated as a matter of derision, and was thus employed in the distich at the end of the epitaph of PP, the parish...all we can, Death is a man Who never spareth none. Thus we find that, with respect to the use of negatives, the customs of former days have been handed...

...and was wearing out so fast early in the eighteenth century, that its derisional adoption is felt by every one who reads the distich at the end of the...all we can, Death is a man, Who never spareth none. Ib. 95: Dr. Johnson has a good passage, by way of banter, where he tells Mrs. Thrale that — „nothing...

..."Epitaph of PP, ' ' the parish clerk, contains an example of this use in a derisive couplet from his pen : Do all we can, Death is a man Who never spareth none. The double negative was a form once commonly used to emphasize the thought expressed. In the Saxon...

...Epitaph of PP," the parish clerk, contains an example of this use in a derisive couplet from his pee; " Do all we can. Death is a man Who never spareth none." In the Saxon tongue this idea was carried often beyond the double to the triple, and even occasionally...