Specimens of the Early English Poets, Band 1Nicol, 1803 - 424 Seiten |
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... present state contains a selection , made with some care and attention , from a consider- able number of the best poetical libraries in this country . That it is still deficient , and that by greater industry it might have been improved ...
... present state contains a selection , made with some care and attention , from a consider- able number of the best poetical libraries in this country . That it is still deficient , and that by greater industry it might have been improved ...
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... present state , will be * To what degree it is defective , the reader will be better able to judge , when Mr. Ritson shall have printed his " Bibliographia Poetica , a Catalogue of " English Poets of the twelfth , thirteenth ...
... present state , will be * To what degree it is defective , the reader will be better able to judge , when Mr. Ritson shall have printed his " Bibliographia Poetica , a Catalogue of " English Poets of the twelfth , thirteenth ...
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... present sketch : it may therefore be proper , for the benefit of the unlearned reader , to preface it by a few general remarks on this part of the subject . It is well known that our English is a compound of the Anglo - Saxon ...
... present sketch : it may therefore be proper , for the benefit of the unlearned reader , to preface it by a few general remarks on this part of the subject . It is well known that our English is a compound of the Anglo - Saxon ...
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... present hour and that , if the study of our early writers be attended with considerable difficulty and embar- : rassment , these are principally to be attributed to a cause very distinct from the mere influx of new , or changes in the ...
... present hour and that , if the study of our early writers be attended with considerable difficulty and embar- : rassment , these are principally to be attributed to a cause very distinct from the mere influx of new , or changes in the ...
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... present state of our language , we have no less than thirteen distinct vowel sounds , and twenty - one modifications of those sounds , making in all thirty - four , which we express , as well as we can , by six and twenty letters : but ...
... present state of our language , we have no less than thirteen distinct vowel sounds , and twenty - one modifications of those sounds , making in all thirty - four , which we express , as well as we can , by six and twenty letters : but ...
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