The New English.
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| Thirteenth Century | Loss of thousands of Old English words, which are slowly replacedby French words. |
| Fourteenth Century | The New English, or Dano-Anglian, which had long been forming, gains possession of London and Oxford, and is spoken at Court. |
| Fifteenth Century | The Printing-press fixes the language, which had lost nearly all its inflections. |
| Sixteenth Century | The Reformation brings Standard English home to all men, and imports many Latin words. |
| Seventeenth Century | The Golden age of English Literature. It began, indeed, ten years before this Century. |
| Eighteenth Century | A Latinized style prevails. |
| Nineteenth Century | Reaction from Latinism to Teutonism, at least in our good writers. Long may it last! |
