The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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... example ( Lect . on Eng . Lang . , pp . 124- 126 ) , that even in the last century , when the style of our writers was highly Latinised , the proportion of Saxon to non - Saxon words in any extensive and characteristic passage from the ...
... example ( Lect . on Eng . Lang . , pp . 124- 126 ) , that even in the last century , when the style of our writers was highly Latinised , the proportion of Saxon to non - Saxon words in any extensive and characteristic passage from the ...
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... example , think more frequently of fire than of the Zodiac . Again , the particular bent of an individual writer , the prevalent direction of his thoughts , and the nature of his theme or purpose , occasion a more than average frequency ...
... example , think more frequently of fire than of the Zodiac . Again , the particular bent of an individual writer , the prevalent direction of his thoughts , and the nature of his theme or purpose , occasion a more than average frequency ...
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... examples ) that they may be registered as next in frequency to those mere particles and auxiliaries , —and , the , but , not , to , for , from , we , our , their , that , which , could , did , will , is , are , were , though , on , ever ...
... examples ) that they may be registered as next in frequency to those mere particles and auxiliaries , —and , the , but , not , to , for , from , we , our , their , that , which , could , did , will , is , are , were , though , on , ever ...
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... examples of the case singular and plural . Occasionally , however , in Milton's original editions we do have the apostrophe : e.g. P. L. , I. 466 " Gaza's frontier bounds , " Pens . 29 " Of woody Ida's inmost grove , " Com . 232 " By ...
... examples of the case singular and plural . Occasionally , however , in Milton's original editions we do have the apostrophe : e.g. P. L. , I. 466 " Gaza's frontier bounds , " Pens . 29 " Of woody Ida's inmost grove , " Com . 232 " By ...
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... examples of rowle and roule as well as roll , and of scrowle and scroul as well as scroll from earlier writers back to Chaucer , -Spenser frequently indulging in rowle . On the other hand the spelling roll had become commoner with some ...
... examples of rowle and roule as well as roll , and of scrowle and scroul as well as scroll from earlier writers back to Chaucer , -Spenser frequently indulging in rowle . On the other hand the spelling roll had become commoner with some ...
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